Introduction

PART 1: THE SHAPE OF EXPERIENCE

1. The Conditions of Creativity

2. Myth and Identity

3. Identity and the Modern Novel

4. Art as a Mode of Knowing

PART 2: THE QUEST FOR CLARITY

5. The Act of Discovery

6. On Learning Mathematics

7. After John Dewey, What?

PART 3 THE IDEA OF ACTION

8. The Control of Human Behavior

9. Freud and the Image of Man

10. Fate and the Possible

11. Psychology and the Image of Man

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).

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• The Culture of Education
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• Actual Minds, Possible Worlds
• Acts of Meaning: Four Lectures on Mind and Culture
• The Process of Education, Revised Edition
• Minding the Law
• The Mind of a Mnemonist: A Little Book about a Vast Memory
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• Making Stories: Law, Literature, Life