ISBN:
9781474405324
,
9781474405317
Language:
English
Pages:
viii, 228 Seiten
,
Illustrationen
,
24 cm
Year of publication:
2016
DDC:
362.4101
Keywords:
Blindness Philosophy
;
Blind History
;
Visual perception History
;
Touch History
;
Blindheit
;
Philosophie
;
Geschichte
;
Visuelle Wahrnehmung
;
Blindheit
;
Tastsinn
;
Cartesianismus
;
Cartesianismus
;
Blindheit
;
Philosophie
;
Geschichte
;
Visuelle Wahrnehmung
;
Blindheit
;
Tastsinn
;
Cartesianismus
Abstract:
"Through an unfolding historical, philosophical and literary narrative that includes Locke, Molyneux and Berkeley in Britain, and Diderot, Voltaire and Buffon in France, this book explores how the Molyneux Question and its aftermath has influenced attitudes towards blindness by the sighted, and sensory substitution technologies for the blind and vision impaired, to this day
Abstract:
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
