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 subtleapproach to the investigation of how the mind works.
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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 subtleapproach to the investigation of how the mind works.
Imprint | Harvard University Press |
Country of origin | United States |
Series | The Jerusalem-Harvard Lectures |
Release date | October 1987 |
Availability | Expected to ship within 12 - 17 working days |
First published | October 1987 |
Authors | Jerome Bruner |
Dimensions | 234 x 155 x 16mm (L x W x T) |
Format | Paperback |
Pages | 201 |
Edition | Revised |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-674-00366-8 |
Barcode | 9780674003668 |
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LSN | 0-674-00366-7 |