Rationality and the literate mind [
Examines the old debate about the relationship between rationality and literacy. This title 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 is a by-product of the way literacy develope...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Routledge ,
c2009
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| Series: | Routledge advances in communication and linguistic theory ;
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| Online Access: | NetLibrary |
Table of Contents:
- 1. On rationality, the mind and scriptism
- 2. The primitive mind revisited
- 3. Logicality and prelogicality
- 4. Reason and primitive languages
- 5. The great divide
- 6. Aristotle's language myth
- 7. Logic and the tyranny of the alphabet
- 8. Literacy and numeracy - Interlude : constructing a language-game
- 9. The literate revolution and its consequences
- 10. The fallout from literacy
- 11. Epilogue : rethinking rationality