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

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

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Paterson, Mark, 1972- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2016]
Temas:
Blind > History.
Visual perception > History.
Touch > History.
Blindness.
Touch.
Medicine > Philosophy.
Visual perception.
Blindness
Touch
Philosophy, Medical
Touch Perception
Visual Perception
Visually Impaired Persons > history
Personnes aveugles > Histoire.
Perception visuelle > Histoire.
Toucher > Histoire.
Cécité.
Toucher.
Médecine > Philosophie.
Perception visuelle.
blindness.
touch.
visual perception.
LITERARY COLLECTIONS > Essays.
Blind
Visual perception
Electronic books.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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