Bruner sets forth nothing less than a new agenda for the study of the mind. He examines the irrepressibly human acts of imagination that allow us to make experience meaningful; he calls this side of mental activity the “narrative mode,” and his book makes important advances in the effort to unravel its nature.

This book expands the concept of the nature of science and provides a practical research alternative for those who work with people and organizations.

Introduction i This book is about how we study history, how we research and write about it, and how we read it. In the postmodern age, historians are being ...