Beyond the Icarus Factor Releasing the Free Spirit of Boys

Name: Beyond the Icarus Factor Releasing the Free Spirit of Boys
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ISBN: 9781594772283

ISBN-10: 1594772282

ISBN-13: 9781594772283

Edition: 2008

Authors: Richard Hawley

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A call to reconsider the place of boys in the family, schools, and community institutions that rob them of their inborn vitality and creativity - Argues that boys have a unique free-spirit nature and that efforts to alter or suppress it lead to profound unhappiness, pathology, or startling compulsions - Demands another approach to societal expectations, one that values and promotes the daring creativity of boys Richard Hawley's many years as headmaster of a boys' school have convinced him that boys do indeed have a unique, intrinsic, and inalienable free-spirit nature. He sees deep flaws in the way we--as parents, educators, and community members--alter or suppress that true nature in order…

Book details

List price: $14.95
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Inner Traditions International, Limited
Publication date: 2/12/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 176
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.616
Language: English

Richard Hawley is headmaster of Cleveland's University School and author of Boys Will Be Men, Seeing Things, and The Headmaster's Papers. He lives in Chagrin Falls, Ohio.



Prologue



The Experience of Boys



The Figure of Icarus



The Exile of Daedalus and the Dawn of Modern Consciousness



Icarus Embodied: The Puer Spirit in Real Lives



Icarus in the Modern World: The Case of Antoine de Saint-Exupery



Icarus Observed from the Ground



Icarus and the Golden World



Beyond Broken Boys: Heeding the Taunts of Perdix


Notes


Bibliography


Index