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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