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JEROME SEYMOUR BRUNER: 1 OCTOBER 1915 · 5 JUNE 2016

As a student of narrative, Jerome (Jerry) Seymour Bruner knew well that one can tell many stories about an individual person, event, and life. Indeed, at the start of his autobiography, Jerry Bruner wrote, I can find little in [my childhood] that would lead anybody to predict that I would become an...

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Published in:Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 2017-12, Vol.161 (4), p.353-361
Main Author: Gardner, Howard
Format: Article
Language:English
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Summary:As a student of narrative, Jerome (Jerry) Seymour Bruner knew well that one can tell many stories about an individual person, event, and life. Indeed, at the start of his autobiography, Jerry Bruner wrote, I can find little in [my childhood] that would lead anybody to predict that I would become an intellectual or an academic, even less a psychologist. And yet, it is appropriate--if not essential--to begin this memoir with the fact that Jerry Bruner was born blind. Only at age 2, after two successful cataract operations could Jerry see. Over the succeeding seven decades, Bruner traversed an intellectual landscape as wide as that of anyone in our time. Indeed, while other estimable scholars were writing articles or books in one field or subfield, Bruner swept across departments, even divisions, of entire universities and, extending beyond scholarship, devoted considerable energy to areas of practice as well. Fortunately, in addition to his own lively and trenchant autobiography, several collections of Bruner's writings, as well as a number of biographies and festschrifts, document this characterization.
ISSN:0003-049X
2326-9243