1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910460047403321

Autore

Román Ediberto

Titolo

Citizenship and its exclusions [[electronic resource] ] : a classical, constitutional, and critical race critique / / Ediberto Román

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, N.Y., : New York University Press, c2010

ISBN

0-8147-6900-4

0-8147-7653-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (226 p.)

Collana

Critical America

Disciplina

342.08/3

Soggetti

Citizenship

Constitutional law

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 159-200) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction : the citizenship construct -- The creation of the concept : the classical period -- The city-states of the dark ages -- The movement toward nascent nation-states -- The philosophical influence of the enlightenment -- The De Jure subordinates -- The De Facto subordinates? -- A new vision of citizenship?

Sommario/riassunto

Citizenship is generally viewed as the most desired legal status an individual can attain, invoking the belief that citizens hold full inclusion in a society, and can exercise and be protected by the Constitution. Yet this membership has historically been exclusive and illusive for many, and in Citizenship and Its Exclusions, Ediberto Román offers a sweeping, interdisciplinary analysis of citizenship’s contradictions.Román offers an exploration of citizenship that spans from antiquity to the present, and crosses disciplines from history to political philosophy to law, including constitutional and critical race theories. Beginning with Greek and Roman writings on citizenship, he moves on to late-medieval and Renaissance Europe, then early Modern Western law, and culminates his analysis with an explanation of how past precedents have influenced U.S. law and policy regulating the citizenship status of indigenous and territorial island people, as well as how different levels of membership have created a de facto subordinate citizenship status



for many members of American society, often lumped together as the “underclass.”

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910778196303321

Autore

Bruner Jerome S (Jerome Seymour)

Titolo

Actual minds, possible worlds / / Jerome Bruner

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Mass., : Harvard University Press, 1986

ISBN

0-674-02901-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xi, 201 pages)

Collana

The Jerusalem-Harvard Lectures

Disciplina

153.3

Soggetti

Psychology and literature

Psycholinguistics

Creative ability

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliography and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Part One. Two Natural Kinds -- 1. Approaching the Literary -- 2. Two Modes of Thought -- 3. Possible Castles -- Part Two. Language and Reality -- 4. The Transactional Self -- 5. The Inspiration of Vygotsky -- 6. Psychological Reality -- 7. Nelson Goodman's Worlds -- 8. Thought and Emotion -- Part Three. Acting in Constructed Worlds -- 9. The Language of Education -- 10. Developmental Theory as Culture -- Afterword -- Appendix: A Reader's Retelling of "Clay" by James Joyce -- Notes -- Credits -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

In this characteristically graceful and provocative book, Jerome Bruner, one of the principal architects of the cognitive revolution, sets forth nothing less than a new agenda for the study of mind. According to Professor Bruner, cognitive science has set its sights too narrowly on the logical, systematic aspects of mental life—those thought processes we use to solve puzzles, test hypotheses, and advance explanations. There is obviously another side to the mind—a side devoted to the irrepressibly human acts of imagination that allow us to make experience meaningful. This is the side of the mind that leads to good stories, gripping drama, primitive myths and rituals, and plausible



historical accounts. Bruner calls it the “narrative mode,” and his book makes important advances in the effort to unravel its nature. Drawing on recent work in literary theory, linguistics, and symbolic anthropology, as well as cognitive and developmental psychology, Professor Bruner examines the mental acts that enter into the imaginative creation of possible worlds, and he shows how the activity of imaginary world making undergirds human science, literature, and philosophy, as well as everyday thinking, and even our sense of self. Over twenty years ago, Jerome Bruner first sketched his ideas about the mind’s other side in his justly admired book, On Knowing: Essays for the Left Hand. Actual Minds, Possible Worlds can be read as a sequel to this earlier work, but it is a sequel that goes well beyond its predecessor by providing rich examples of just how the mind’s narrative mode can be successfully studied. The collective force of these examples points the way toward a more humane and subtle approach to the investigation of how the mind works.