Seeing with the hands : blindness, vision, and touch after Descartes / [electronic resource]
Paterson, Mark,1972-author.
This book seeks to answer why there been a persistent fascination by the sighted, including philosophers, poets and the public, in what the blind 'see'.
Specialized.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Specialized.
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 12 Nov 2020).
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.
This book seeks to answer why there been a persistent fascination by the sighted, including philosophers, poets and the public, in what the blind 'see'.
Blind
Touch
Visual perception