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 formally
in Western education, intrinsically beyond the reach of the
preliterate mind? What light, if any, do the findings of
contemporary neuroscience throw on such issues? Roy 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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