Unstable Ideas: Temperament, Cognition, and Self - Hardcover

Kagan, Jerome

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 067493038X ISBN 13: 9780674930384

Publisher: Harvard University Press, 1989

Synopsis

Discusses temperament, cognitive development, and consciousness, and suggests new research techniques for studying child development

About this title

About the Author:

Jerome Kagan is Daniel and Amy Starch Professor of Psychology at Harvard University.

Review:

Jerome Kagan...sets forth an elegantly reasoned and well-written argument for events, functions, and dynamisms rather than things as explanatory notions in psychology. What he calls for is a more complex understanding of the interaction between personality and environment--and the master concept through which he explores such interaction is the notion of 'temperament.' (Richard M. Restak New York Times Book Review)

Kagan weaves philosophy, physics, and psychology into a persuasive...form. His book should be required reading for anyone concerned with our children, or who they become. (Patricia L. Linn Antioch Review)

The author marshals vast erudition and scholarship...The domain [Kagan] surveys in this series of essays is vast. It includes trends in developmental psychology across the twentieth century; it takes in the cognition, temperament, and self of his subtitle, and touches as well on issues of epistemology, methodology, morality and ethics, and creativity in science...This is a book of varied, sometimes far-flung, themes developed in an integrated and unified manner. It is an ambitious undertaking, but the author realizes his intentions admirable, even spectacularly. (Alexander Thomas Readings: A Journal of Reviews and Commentary in Mental Health)

About this edition

• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Publication date: 1989
• ISBN 10: 067493038X
• ISBN 13: 9780674930384
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 328