Roy Harris

Rationality and the Literate Mind (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

In this volume, Harris challenges the received mainstream opinion that reason is an intrinsic property of the human mind, and argues that the whole Western conception of rational thought, from Classical Greece down to modern symbolic logic, is a by-product of the way literacy developed in European cultures.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 206
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Januar 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135838768
• Artikelnr.: 43072928

Autorenporträt

Roy Harris is Emeritus Professor of General Linguistics in the University of Oxford and an Honorary Fellow of St Edmund Hall.

Inhaltsangabe

Series Editor's Forward
Preface
Chapter 1 Rationality, the mind and scriptism
Chapter 2 The primitive mind revisited
Chapter 3 Logicality and prelogicality
Chapter 4 Reason and primitive languages
Chapter 5 The great divide
Chapter 6 Aristotle's language myth
Chapter 7 Logic and the tyranny of the alphabet
Chapter 8 Literacy and numeracy
Chapter 9 Interlude: constructing a language-game
Chapter 10 The literate revolution and its consequences
Chapter 11 The fallout from literacy
Chapter 12 Epilogue: rethinking rationality
Bibliography
Index