Blindness And Enlightenment An Essay
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Blindness And Enlightenment An Essay
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Author : Kate E. Tunstall
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2011-08-18
Blindness And Enlightenment An Essay written by Kate E. Tunstall and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-08-18 with Literary Criticism categories.
Blindness and Enlightenment presents a reading and a new translation of Diderot's Letter on the Blind. Diderot was the editor of the Encyclopédie, that Trojan horse of Enlightenment ideas, as well as a novelist, playwright, art critic and philosopher. His Letter on the Blind of 1749 is essential reading for anyone interested in Enlightenment philosophy or eighteenth-century literature because it contradicts a central assumption of Western literature and philosophy, and of the Enlightenment in particular, namely that moral and philosophical insight is dependent on seeing. Kate Tunstall's essay guides the reader through the Letter, its anecdotes, ideas and its conversational mode of presenting them, and it situates the Letter in relation both to the Encyclopedie and to a rich tradition of writing about and, most importantly, talking and listening to the blind.
Blindness And Enlightenment An Essay
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language : en
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Release Date : 2015
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An Essay On Blindness In A Letter To A Person Of Distinction
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Author : Denis Diderot
language : en
Publisher: Gale Ecco, Print Editions
Release Date : 2018-04-25
An Essay On Blindness In A Letter To A Person Of Distinction written by Denis Diderot and has been published by Gale Ecco, Print Editions this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-04-25 with categories.
The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars. Medical theory and practice of the 1700s developed rapidly, as is evidenced by the extensive collection, which includes descriptions of diseases, their conditions, and treatments. Books on science and technology, agriculture, military technology, natural philosophy, even cookbooks, are all contained here. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ Harvard University Houghton Library N002082 London: printed for Richard Dymott, 1773. v, [3],134p., 4 plates; 12°
Seeing With The Hands
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Author : Paterson Mark Paterson
language : en
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Release Date : 2017-12-11
Seeing With The Hands written by Paterson Mark Paterson and has been published by Edinburgh University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-12-11 with Literary Criticism categories.
A literary, historical and philosophical discussion of attitudes to blindness by the sighted, and what the blind 'see'Why has there been a persistent fascination by the sighted, including philosophers, poets and the public, in what the blind 'see'? Is the experience of being blind, as Descartes declared, like 'seeing with the hands'? What happens on the rare occasions when surgery allows previously blind people to see for the very first time? And how did evidence from early experimental surgery inform those philosophical debates about vision and touch? These questions and others were prompted by a question that the Irish scientist, Molyneux, asked an English philosopher, Locke, in 1688, but which was to have implications for British empiricism, French sensationism, and the beginnings of psychology that outlasted the long tail of the Enlightenment. Through an unfolding historical and philosophical narrative the book follows up responses to this question in Britain and France, and considers it as an early articulation of sensory substitution, the substitution of one sense (touch) for another (vision). This concept has influenced attitudes towards blindness, and technologies for the blind and vision impaired, to this day.Key FeaturesUnfolds the history of 'blindness' from 17th century that shades into the beginnings of psychologyQuestions the assumed centrality of vision and the eye in Enlightenment philosophy and scienceTraces the core idea of 'sensory substitution' from hypothetical speculations in the 17th century to present day technologies for the blind and vision impaired
Philosophy As Disability Exclusion
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Author : Simon Hayhoe
language : en
Publisher: IAP
Release Date : 2015-12-01
Philosophy As Disability Exclusion written by Simon Hayhoe and has been published by IAP this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-12-01 with Education categories.
Philosophy as Disability and Exclusion examines the history of ideas on arts in the education of people who are blind in England, from 1688 to 2010. This book also examines a number of the earlier influences on the enlightenment, and the international context of this topic. The two hypotheses on which this study is based are: (1) Our understanding of blindness in English intellectual culture is less to do with homologous physical characteristics. Instead it is more to do with an ethical philosophy of human capacity. (2) The arts education of people who are blind through touch tells us much about our psychology of mythologies and the intellectual construction of human thought. Furthermore, the myth that people who are blind are incapable of visual arts and have an enhanced capacity for the musical arts is one of the most engrained modern folklores. It is part of our cultural, intellectual and philosophical conscience. In the process of investigating these hypotheses, this book argues that philosophies have linked immorality, intelligence and physical ability. These have become connected in ways that are unrelated to eyesight in order to fulfill broader cultural processes of developing social theory. In this book, the process of knowledge creation is termed passive exclusion and is analyzed through an epistemological model of examining disability and exclusion.
An Essay On The Nature And Glory Of The Gospel Of Jesus Christ
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Author : Joseph Bellamy
language : en
Publisher: Gale Ecco, Print Editions
Release Date : 2018-04-24
An Essay On The Nature And Glory Of The Gospel Of Jesus Christ written by Joseph Bellamy and has been published by Gale Ecco, Print Editions this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-04-24 with categories.
The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars. The Age of Enlightenment profoundly enriched religious and philosophical understanding and continues to influence present-day thinking. Works collected here include masterpieces by David Hume, Immanuel Kant, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, as well as religious sermons and moral debates on the issues of the day, such as the slave trade. The Age of Reason saw conflict between Protestantism and Catholicism transformed into one between faith and logic -- a debate that continues in the twenty-first century. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library W032015 Errors in paging: page numbers 95-96 repeated; p. 234-238 misnumbered 134-138. Errata note, p. [xiv]. Errata "To be corrected in the author's Dialogues," p. 256. Boston, N.E.: Printed and sold by S. Kneeland, in Queen Street, opposite to the probate office, 1762. [2], vi, [8],254[i.e. 256], [2]p.; 12°
Self Evident Truths
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Author : Kate E. Tunstall
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2012-09-06
Self Evident Truths written by Kate E. Tunstall and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-09-06 with Philosophy categories.
The keywords of the Enlightenment-freedom, tolerance, rights, equality-are today heard everywhere, and they are used to endorse a wide range of positions, some of which are in perfect contradiction. While Orwell's 1984 claims that there is one phrase in the English language that resists translation into Newspeak, namely the opening lines of that key Enlightenment text, the Declaration of Independence: 'We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal...', we also find the Wall Street Journal saying of the Iraq War that the US was 'fighting for the very notion of the Enlightenment'. It seems we are no longer sure whether these truths are self-evident nor quite what they might mean today. Based on the critically acclaimed Oxford Amnesty Lectures series, this book brings together a number of major international figures to debate the history of freedom, tolerance, equality, and to explore the complex legacy of the Enlightenment for human rights. The lectures are published here with responses from other leading figures in the field.
The Other Enlightenment
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Author : Matthew Sharpe
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2023-02-16
The Other Enlightenment written by Matthew Sharpe and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-02-16 with Philosophy categories.
This post-colonial and feminist reading of the Enlightenment explores the proto-postmodernist practice of examining one’s conclusions through the eyes of the Other. Self-estrangement to gain critical distance from one’s taken-for-granted assumptions, was central to the Enlightenment, and remains vital for critical sociopolitical thinking today.
Imaginary Films In Literature
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language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2015-11-09
Imaginary Films In Literature written by and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-11-09 with Literary Criticism categories.
Alternating theoretical essays with case studies, Imaginary Films in Literature focuses on a particular and suggestive form of ekphrasis: the description of imaginary, non-existent movies.
Lenses On Blindness
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Author : Sharon Packer, M.D.
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2023-02-24
Lenses On Blindness written by Sharon Packer, M.D. and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-02-24 with Social Science categories.
Blindness, or vision loss, is a major medical concern that has also drawn the attention of artists, writers, musicians, mythologists, filmmakers, religions, philosophers and others. Covering everything from pop culture to high culture, this text is an illuminating anthology of essays examining various representations of blindness. Comprehensive in scope, this collection of essays analyzes depictions and explorations of blindness in many pieces of media. Essays explore blindness in horror films, science fiction literature, high art, superhero fiction, Jewish and indigenous traditions, music and more. This book aims to show how a world of darkness can hold so much light.