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Rationality and the Literate Mind
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Table of Contents

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

About the Author

Roy Harris is Emeritus Professor of General Linguistics in the University of Oxford and an Honorary Fellow of St Edmund Hall.

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