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 was University Professor at New York University.
In this little book Jerome Bruner…has given us a thoroughly
intelligent and, in the best sense, heterodox collection of essays
on a number diverse topics… This book is exciting, not merely
because of its method, but also because of the topics chosen for
discussion. Bruner discusses education after Dewey, the teaching of
mathematics, the human control of behavior, Freud—all right-hand
subjects. He also discusses creativity, art as knowing, myth and
identity in the modern novel—and, in passing, death… The book is
stimulating because it is the product of a lively mind that gives
freedom to the cunning of the left hand as well as that of the
right.
*New York Times Book Review*
Do we know what creativity is? …I think the best book on this I
have yet read, a volume slender and without pretension, is Jerome
S. Bruner’s On Knowing… Apart from its wisdom and wit, apart from
its stimulation, it is the very model of that nearly lost art: the
essay… It is a striding book, trespassing again and again on areas
hitherto surveyed, restricted, marked by the claim of the
specialists: language, science, art, literature. The very
juxtaposition is a creative act.
*Los Angeles Times*
This book had its beginning in what the author calls ‘occasional
pieces done for the left hand’ which signifies the dreamer, the
intuitor, the hunch-follower, the artist. There is a danger in this
approach to the writing of a book… By some combination of skill and
sense, Bruner has…managed a happy wedding of ideas and intent… We
in this country have been especially fortunate in having the best
of our psychologists devote their sharpest talents to the problems
of education. Inevitably they address themselves to the largest
issues and Bruner is firmly in that great tradition.
*Saturday Review*
Excellent essays on how we know what we know, what happens in the
creative and educative process. Penetrating, easy to read and
harder to understand, but thoroughly exciting when the writer’s
meaning comes clear.
*Boston Globe*
[A] beautifully written and eloquent set of essays… Each essay
ventures boldly yet sensitively into some realm of man’s
experience, frequently a realm about which psychology has had, till
now, little to say. The essays range widely from a consideration of
the essential structure of a creative work to an appraisal of art
as a source of knowledge; and from a concern with the importance of
personal acts of discovery in the educational process to an
analysis of the role of knowledge in commitment and action.
*Contemporary Psychology*
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