{"product_id":"the-small-worlds-of-childhood-philosophy-poetics-and-the-queer-temporalities-of-early-life-9781531510503","title":"The Small Worlds of Childhood: Philosophy, Poetics, and the Queer Temporalities of Early Life","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Small Worlds of Childhood \u003c\/i\u003eargues that prose representations of bourgeois childhood contain surprising opportunities to reflect on the temporality of experience. In their narratives of children at home in their everyday worlds, Adalbert Stifter, Rainer Maria Rilke, and Walter Benjamin are not only able to shed a unique light on key issues in the history of philosophy. They also offer a queer critique of the normative expectation that the literature of childhood is oriented toward the future. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eStone shows that when writers engage in philosophical storytelling, showing children tarrying in quotidian experience, they dislodge childhood from its nostalgic value to grown-ups and the heteronormative demand to grow up. Such stories of children as philosophical subjects thus take on their own lingering, backwards, or all together strange sense of time. Stone demonstrates the necessity of recognizing how texts on childhood--before and beyond Freud--engage \u003ci\u003eliterary\u003c\/i\u003e language in the service of a variety of \u003ci\u003ephilosophical\u003c\/i\u003e attitudes, reminding us how poetic techniques can tell us something extraordinary about moments of ordinary experience and the manner with which humans, and especially children, cognize the world. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBy bringing canonical German-language literary and philosophical traditions into conversation with current English-language queer approaches, Stone opens a queer counter-history of German and Austrian realist and modernist literature. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is available from the publisher on an open-access basis.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Lauren Shizuko Stone\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Fordham University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/06\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 224\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.01lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.69d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781531510503","brand":"Fordham University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44002770878601,"sku":"9781531510503","price":125.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_67c2248c-18e8-4943-b0cc-03c08519858f.jpg?v=1747720464","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/the-small-worlds-of-childhood-philosophy-poetics-and-the-queer-temporalities-of-early-life-9781531510503","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}