Seeing with the hands: blindness, vision, and touch after Descartes

This book seeks to answer why there been a persistent fascination by the sighted, including philosophers, poets and the public, in what the blind ‘see’

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1. Verfasser: Paterson, Mark 1972- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Edinburgh Edinburgh University Press 2020
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Zusammenfassung:This book seeks to answer why there been a persistent fascination by the sighted, including philosophers, poets and the public, in what the blind ‘see’
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Introduction: on questioning blindess and what the blind 'see' -- 'Seeing with the hands': Descartes, blindness, and vision -- 'Suppose a man born blind...': cubes and spheres, hands and eyes -- Objects that 'touch'd his eyes': surgical experiments in the recovery of vision -- Voltaire, Buffon, and blindness in France -- The testimony of blind men: Diderot's Lettre -- Reading with the fingers: tactile signs and the possibilities for a language of touch -- Seeing with the tongue: sight through other means -- Blindness, empathy, and 'feeling seeing': literary accounts of blind experience
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (viii, 228 Seiten)
ISBN:9781474405331

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