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Acts of Meaning

Four Lectures on Mind and Culture

Jerome Bruner

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ISBN 9780674003613

Publication Date: 01/01/1993

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208 pages

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Preface
Acknowledgments
I. The Proper Study of Man
II. Folk Psychology as an Instrument of Culture
III. Entry into Meaning
IV. Autobiography and Self
Notes
Subject Index
Name Index

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