Acts of Meaning

Informationen zum Autor Jerome Bruner was University Professor at New York University. Klappentext Jerome Bruner argues that the cognitive revolution, with its current fixation on mind as 'information processor, ' has led psychology away from the deeper objective of understanding mind as a creator of meanings. Zusammenfassung Bruner argues that the cognitive revolution! with its fixation on a computational model of mind! has led psychology away from the deeper objective of understanding mind as a creator of meanings. Only by breaking out of the limitations of this model can we grasp the interaction through which mind both constitutes and is constituted by culture. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface Acknowledgments One The Proper Study of Man Two Folk Psychology as an Instrument of Culture Three Entry into Meaning Four Autobiography and Self Notes Subject Index Name Index

Product details

• Authors: Jerome Bruner, Jerome S. Bruner, Bruner Jerome
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 02.09.1992
• EAN: 9780674003613
• ISBN: 978-0-674-00361-3
• No. of pages: 208
• Dimensions: 137 mm x 210 mm x 17 mm
• Series: The Jerusalem-Harvard Lectures; The Jerusalem-Harvard Lectures; Jerusalem-Harvard Lectures (HUP)
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Theoretical psychology; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine; Psychology, SELF-HELP / Personal Growth / General, PSYCHOLOGY / Movements / General, Popular psychology, Psychological theory, systems, schools and viewpoints, Psychological theory & schools of thought