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Seeing with the hands : blindness, vision, and touch after Descartes
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| 서명/저자사항 | Seeing with the hands : blindness, vision, and touch after Descartes/ Mark Paterson. |
| 개인저자 | Paterson, Mark,1972- author. |
| 발행사항 | Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, [2016]. |
| 형태사항 | 1 online resource (viii, 228 pages): illustrations, portraits. |
| 기타형태 저록 | Print version: Paterson, Mark, 1972- Seeing with the hands. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2016] 9781474405317 |
| ISBN | 9781474405331 1474405339 9781474405348 1474405347 |
| 서지주기 | Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-221) and index. |
| 내용주기 | 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. |
| 요약 | "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." |
| 해제 | --back cover. |
| 일반주제명 | Blind --History. Visual perception --History. Touch --History. Touch Blind Visual perception LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays Blindness. Touch. Philosophy, Medical. Touch Perception. Visual Perception. Visually Impaired Persons --history. |
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