Comments on: iLaw week at HLS http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/palfrey/2004/05/13/ilaw-week-at-hls/ From the Berkman Center at Harvard Law School Wed, 18 Nov 2009 13:34:17 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: John Palfrey http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/palfrey/2004/05/13/ilaw-week-at-hls/comment-page-1/#comment-417 John Palfrey Fri, 14 May 2004 14:13:21 +0000 http://clem.law.harvard.edu/jpalfrey/2004/05/13/ilaw-week-at-hls/#comment-417 <a></a> What a great cite -- thanks! -JP

What a great cite — thanks! -JP

]]> By: Urs Gasser http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/palfrey/2004/05/13/ilaw-week-at-hls/comment-page-1/#comment-416 Urs Gasser Fri, 14 May 2004 12:07:30 +0000 http://clem.law.harvard.edu/jpalfrey/2004/05/13/ilaw-week-at-hls/#comment-416 <a></a> John, I very much like your thoughts about narratives. A great read (and not many pages...) in this context is Jerome Bruner, Making Stories. Law, Literature, Life (2002): "Stories--whether chronicles of truth or fancies of fiction--pervade our world and shape our understanding of it. They inform our basic impressions of reality and impose structure on our lives. Yet so intrinsic is our grasp of narrative--we all tell stories ans like to hear them--that we find it hard to question its purpose or explain its effects." (from the blurb). Take care, -Urs

John,

I very much like your thoughts about narratives. A great read (and not many pages…) in this context is Jerome Bruner, Making Stories. Law, Literature, Life (2002):

“Stories–whether chronicles of truth or fancies of fiction–pervade our world and shape our understanding of it. They inform our basic impressions of reality and impose structure on our lives. Yet so intrinsic is our grasp of narrative–we all tell stories ans like to hear them–that we find it hard to question its purpose or explain its effects.” (from the blurb).

Take care, -Urs

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