Wild Children — Domesticated Dreams
Civilization and the Birth of Education
An anthropological analysis of education, this book is the first to examine the root cause of contemporary pedagogical systems from a truly comparative and interdisciplinary perspective. This confluence of ethology and anthropology reveals that the very category “human” is a requirement of civilization contingent on domestication and submission to structural violence at the root of civilized pedagogical practices.
About the book
An anthropological analysis of education, this book is the first to examine the root cause of contemporary pedagogical systems from a truly comparative and interdisciplinary perspective. This confluence of ethology and anthropology reveals that the very category “human” is a requirement of civilization contingent on domestication and submission to structural violence at the root of civilized pedagogical practices.
What people are saying
John Taylor Gatto, author of Weapons of Mass Instruction“[This book] is a monument to our sense and original thinking.”
John Zerzan, author of Running on Emptiness“This book provides an extremely stimulating analysis of the divisions and debilities engineered upon kids. … Wild Children - Domesticated Dreams is a hugely important work!”
Contents
- In the Beginning . . .
- The Ontological Roots of Education—An Indispensable Introduction
- Do Children Dream of Civilized Love?
- On Objects, Love and Objectifications
- On Modernism and Education: The Birth of Contemporary Domesticated Pedagogies
- In the End and Towards a Feral Future
- Bibliography
- Index
