On Knowing: Essays for the Left Hand, Second Edition

The striking & subtle discussions contained in On Knowing take on the core issues concerning man's sense of self: creativity, the search for identity, the nature of aesthetic knowledge, myth, the learning process, & modem-day attitudes toward social controls, Freud, & fate. 

In this revised, expanded edition, Bruner comments on his personal efforts to maintain an intuitively & rationally balanced understanding of human nature, taking into account the odd historical circumstances which have hindered academic psychology's attempts in the past to know man. Writing with wit, imagination, & deep sympathy for the human condition, Jerome Bruner speaks here to the part of man's mind that can never be completely satisfied by the right-handed virtues of order, rationality, & discipline.