Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Preface
- Introduction: On Questioning Blindness and What the Blind ‘See’
- 1 ‘Seeing with the Hands’: Descartes, Blindness, and Vision
- 2 ‘Suppose a Man Born Blind. . .’: Cubes and Spheres, Hands and Eyes
- 3 Objects that ‘Touch’d his Eyes’: Surgical Experiments in the Recovery of Vision
- 4 Voltaire, Buffon, and Blindness in France
- 5 The Testimony of Blind Men: Diderot’s Lettre
- 6 Reading with the Fingers: Tactile Signs and the Possibilities for a Language of Touch
- 7 Seeing with the Tongue: Sight through Other Means
- 8 Blindness, Empathy, and ‘Feeling Seeing’: Literary Accounts of Blind Experience
- References
- Index
Index
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 November 2020
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Preface
- Introduction: On Questioning Blindness and What the Blind ‘See’
- 1 ‘Seeing with the Hands’: Descartes, Blindness, and Vision
- 2 ‘Suppose a Man Born Blind. . .’: Cubes and Spheres, Hands and Eyes
- 3 Objects that ‘Touch’d his Eyes’: Surgical Experiments in the Recovery of Vision
- 4 Voltaire, Buffon, and Blindness in France
- 5 The Testimony of Blind Men: Diderot’s Lettre
- 6 Reading with the Fingers: Tactile Signs and the Possibilities for a Language of Touch
- 7 Seeing with the Tongue: Sight through Other Means
- 8 Blindness, Empathy, and ‘Feeling Seeing’: Literary Accounts of Blind Experience
- References
- Index
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- Seeing with the HandsBlindness, Vision and Touch After Descartes, pp. 222 - 228Publisher: Edinburgh University PressPrint publication year: 2017