The Well of Being -- Contents -- 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 -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Z.