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 promp Seeing with the Hands - Mark Paterson od authora Mark Paterson a nakladatelství za skvělé ceny na e-shopu Martinus. cz.
Autor |
Mark Paterson |
Jazyk |
anglický |
Počet stran |
224 |
Rok vydání |
2016 |
Žánr |
naučná |
Nakladatelství |
Edinburgh University Press |