On Knowing: Essays for the Left Hand, Second Edition

Bruner, Jerome S.

ISBN 10: 0674635256 / ISBN 13: 9780674635258

Published by Belknap Press (edition New edition), 1979

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The item might be beaten up but readable. May contain markings or highlighting, as well as stains, bent corners, or any other major defect, but the text is not obscured in any way.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: On Knowing: Essays for the Left Hand, Second Edition
• Publisher: Belknap Press (edition New edition)
• Publication Date: 1979
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0674635256
• ISBN 13: 9780674635258
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition: New edition.
• Condition: Fair

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Synopsis

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 modern-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.

Writing with wit, imagination, and deep sympathy for the human condition, Jerome Bruner speaks here to the part of man’s mind that can never be completely satisfied by the right-handed virtues of order, rationality, and discipline.

About the Author

Jerome Bruner was University Professor at New York University.