Rationality and the Literate Mind

by Roy Harris

Book Overview

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 structure of the written sentence? Is logic, as developed...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415999014
• ISBN13: 9780415999014
• Release Date: January 2009
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 190 Pages
• Weight: 0.99 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"