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In Search of Mind: Essays in Autobiography
Hardcover
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306 pages
Published
October 28th 1983
by HarperCollins Publishers
(first published October 1983)
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When I was an undergraduate in the late 60s, Jerome Bruner was the biggest star in academic psychology, which perhaps wasn't saying much - it was already a gut major. One knew about him because of a certain attitude of seriousness, and a tone of reverence when he was mentioned, than for any idea he was associated with, at least in my mind. He was the doyen of the Soc Rel department at Harvard, which was one of the atoms into which the old Psychology Department of William James was split in the l
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Ugh. What a pain this was to read...his first few chapters are quite interesting, as are several more interspersed throughout the book, but his writing is so high flown. Moreover, all he does is name drop as if he is trying to impress the reader. In the end, he lost me. Sadly, it grew tiring. Although Bruner was clearly a part of the Cognitive Revolution, he dearly wants you to know it.
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Jerome Seymour Bruner
is an American psychologist predominately in the fields of developmental, educational, and legal psychology, and is one of the pioneers of the cognitive psychology movement in the United States. He is a senior research fellow at the New York University School of Law. He received his B.A. in 1937 from Duke University and his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1941. During World
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