Seeing with the hands : blindness, vision and touch after Descartes /
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 senso...
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Edinburgh :
Edinburgh University Press,
[2016]
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Table of Contents:
- 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.