Rationality and the Literate Mind

Informationen zum Autor Roy Harris is Emeritus Professor of General Linguistics in the University of Oxford and an Honorary Fellow of St Edmund Hall. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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

Product details

• Authors: Roy Harris
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 09.01.2009
• EAN: 9780415999014
• ISBN: 978-0-415-99901-4
• No. of pages: 190
• Series: Routledge Advances in Communication and Linguistic Theory
• Subjects: Education and learning > Adult education/adult education classes > Adult education class / course materials (language); Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / General, Philosophy, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Literacy, Historical & comparative linguistics, Historical and comparative linguistics