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Acts of Meaning (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)

Psychologist Jerome Bruner believes that the discipline of psychology has been poisoned as a distinctive human science by its fragmentation into subspecialties which look to biology or computer science for their models. In Acts of Meaning (a revised series of Jerusalem-Harvard lectures given in Jerusalem at the Hebrew University in December, 1989) Bruner proposes as an antidote what he calls “cultural psychology.” Interdisciplinary in nature, cultural psychology would draw on the insights of anthropology, literary theory, philosophy, and sociology to probe human...

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