Actual Minds, Possible Worlds

Jerome Bruner

    Preface

    PART 1: TWO NATURAL KINDS

    1. Approaching the Literary

    2. Two Modes of Thought

    3. Possible Castles

    PART 2: LANGUAGE AND REALITY

    4. The Transactional Self

    5. The Inspiration of Vygotsky

    6. Psychological Reality

    7. Nelson Goodman's Worlds

    8. Thought and Emotion

    PART 3: ACTING IN CONSTRUCTED WORLDS

    9. The Language of Education

    10. Developmental Theory as Culture

    Afterword

    Appendix: A Reader's Retelling of "Clay" by James Joyce

    Notes

    Credits

    Index

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Jerome Bruner is University Professor at New York University and the author of many books, including Acts of Meaning; On Knowing; The Process of Education; and Toward a Theory of Instruction (all published by Harvard).