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10%OFFMark Paterson - Seeing with the Hands: Blindness, Vision and Touch After Descartes - 9781474405324 - V9781474405324
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Seeing with the Hands: Blindness, Vision and Touch After Descartes

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Description for Seeing with the Hands: Blindness, Vision and Touch After Descartes Paperback. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: DNF; DSB; HPM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .

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 ... Read more

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Product Details

Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781474405324
SKU
V9781474405324
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99-50

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