On knowing
Subtitle: essays for the left hand
By: Jerome S. Bruner.
Edition: Expanded ed.
Publisher: Belknap Press; Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Published: 1980
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 189
Subjects: Psychology.
Description: The left hand has traditionally represented the powers of intuition, feeling, and spontaneity. In this classic book, Jerome Bruner inquires into the part these qualities play in determining how we know what we do know; how we can help others to know-that is, to teach; and how our conception of reality affects our actions and is modified by them. The striking and subtle discussions contained in On Knowing take on the core issues concerning man's sense of self: creativity, the search for identity, the nature of aesthetic knowledge, myth, the learning process, and modem-day attitudes toward social controls, Freud, and fate. In this revised, expanded edition, Bruner comments on his personal efforts to maintain an intuitively and rationally balanced understanding of human nature, taking into account the odd historical circumstances which have hindered academic psychology's attempts in the past to know man. - Publisher.
Notes: Previous ed., 1962.