La fabbrica delle storie. Diritto, letteratura, vita

Εξαιρετικό ανάγνωσμα. Η τέχνη της αφήγησης. Μιλάει για όλα όσα βάζουμε σε λέξεις. Είτε πρόκειται για ιστορίες με μυθοπλασία είτε πρόκειται για οποιοδήποτε άλλο αφήγημα ή ανάγκη για αυτό. Καταπιάνεται διεξοδικά με τη λογοτεχνία, τις δικαστικές υποθέσεις και το αφήγημα του εαυτού. Ειδικά το τελευταίο Leggi tutto

RIP educational psychologist Jerome Bruner, who died yesterday at age 100. Influenced initially by Piaget, he helped shape educational development thinking and the ways school were constructed for decades. Relevance, the arts, play, things largely dismissed by education think tanks today, all were c Leggi tutto

This book is the crystallization of many years of thinking about the problems associated with being human. We must all in many ways admit to Bruner's argument's application to our own lives. My students, the ones who read it and pay attention to my lectures, usually get his points about narrative and Leggi tutto

Bruner has a lot of interesting insights in these pages that make for a fascinating engagement with some of the fundamental questions surrounding why human beings tell stories, what their function is, and how we pattern our lives after them. His insights are aided significantly by his easygoing styl Leggi tutto

According to Bruner, it is not Cogito ergo sum, but, rather, narrare ergo sum. Man is the only animal that can tell stories. The narrative is what defines us.

Parts of Jerome Bruner's biography are naturally spliced into his investigation of the places where narrative give shape to the psychology and sociology of human beings. It is fitting, too, that they expand upon my very vague notion of who he was from my education program, and lend his personal insi Leggi tutto

This gem has quickly become one of my favorite Jerome Bruner books, a brief yet succulently satisfying account of how we use stories to make sense of our lives. I find it affirming many of the understandings of human social processes that have become invaluable in my work, particularly the notion th Leggi tutto

For the most part it's a good read. I find the ideas in this book more abstract than concrete, if that makes any sense, but due to my attention span it makes it a little hard to follow. I will probably have to read this book a few more times before I can appreciate it's full breadth. There's a good s Leggi tutto