Despite American education's mania for standardized tests, testing misses what matters most about learning: the desire to learn in the first place.... Læs mere
Providing a basic income to everyone, rich or poor, active or inactive, was advocated by Paine, Mill, and Galbraith but the idea was... Læs mere
Focusing on the 17th-century play of mourning, Walter Benjamin identifies allegory as the constitutive trope of modernity, bespeaking a haunted, bedeviled world of... Læs mere
Jerome Bruner shows that the basic concepts of science and the humanities can be grasped intuitively at a very early age. Bruner's foundational case for the... Læs mere
Emphasizing that science can only be understood through its practice, the author examines science and technology in action: the... Læs mere
How do we judge whether an action is morally right or wrong? If an action is wrong, what reason does that give us not do it? Why should we give such reasons priority over our... Læs mere
This is the epic story of how African-Americans, in the six decades following slavery,... Læs mere
Stories pervade our daily lives. We use them to make sense of the world. But how does this work? In Making Stories, the eminent psychologist Jerome Bruner examines... Læs mere
Berman’s masterwork narrates the interaction of evolution and revolution in the development of Western law.... Læs mere
Liberals often worry that inviting moral and religious argument into the public sphere runs the risk of intolerance and coercion. These essays respond to... Læs mere