206 Pages
by
Routledge
206 Pages
by
Routledge
206 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book re-examines the old debate about the relationship between rationality and literacy. Does writing "restructure consciousness?" Do preliterate societies have a different "mind-set" from literate societies? Is reason "built in" to the way we think? How is literacy related to numeracy? Is the "logical form" that Western philosophers recognize anything more than an extrapolation from the... Read more
1. Rationality, the mind and Scriptism 2.The Primitive Mind Revisited 3. Logicality and Prelogicality 4. Reason and Primitive Languages 5. The Great Divide 6. Aristotle’s Language Myth 7. Logic and the Tyranny of the Alphabet 8. Literacy and Numeracy 9. Interlude: Constructing a Language-Game 10. The Literate Revolution and Its Consequences 11. The Fallout from Literacy 12. Epilogue: Rethinking Rationality
Biography
Roy Harris is Emeritus Professor of General Linguistics in the University of Oxford and an Honorary Fellow of St Edmund Hall.
