Table of Contents
In the Beginning … 1
The Ontological Roots of Education: An Indispensable Introduction 7
1 Do Children Dream of Civilized Love?: Civilization and Its Contents 20
Empathy, Co-operation and Mutual Aid from an Interspecies Perspective 30
Children Do Not Dream of Carrots and Sticks 43
2 On Objects, Love and Objectifications 53
On Love 53
On Things: Questions of Cost 53
On Things: The Question of Love, Hatred and Shame 55
On Things: The Question of Categorization and Interests 72
On Love: The Question of Sex 76
On Making Things: Questions of Respect 77
On Using Things: Questions of Trust and Respect 78
On Things: Questions of Mistrust 79
On Issues That Objectify: Trust in institution 81
On the Study of Things: Phenomenology et al 83
Finally: On Love, Objects and Objectifications 85
3 On Modernism and Education: The Birth of Contemporary Domesticated Pedagogies 89
The Nature of Mind Destruction 89
On Learning and Love 93
What, When and How Do People Learn 97
Institutionalization of Habitus 99
Predicting the Future 101
The Industrial Habitus of Education 103
The Verdict 109
In the End and towards a Feral Future 113
References 118
Index 123
