Preface    1. Questioning Childhood             Whose Child?       Which Adult?       The Western Construction of Childhood       Theorizing Childhood        Adult-Child Dialogue        The Child Before Us: Education, Parenting, and the Evolution of Subjectivity    2. The Primordial Child              The Divine Child       The Romantic Child        Romanticism, Education, and the New Humanity    3. The Invention of Adulthood             Adultism and Models of the Self        The Evolution of Adulthood/Childhood        The Evolution of the Adult-Child Relationship    4. Childhood and the Intersubject              Boundary Work       The Ego Dethroned       The Emergence of the Intersubject        Psychogenic Theory of History and the Present Age       The Dialectics of Reason and Desire       The Privileged Stranger    5. Reimagining School              The Purposes of Schooling       The Space of Dialogue       The School as Laboratory of the Third Way of Living        The Dark and the Light        Notes       Bibliography Index