The Subject at Hand
Blind Imaging, Images of Blindness
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4188249 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Georgina Kleege (0009-0007-8191-2691, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 78 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 1243-1262 |
| Publication date | 2011-12-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Social research (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0037-783X • E-ISSN: 1944-768X |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/sor.2011.0053 |
| OpenAlex | W46402039 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
This essay describes the friendship between Denis Diderot, the Enlightenment philosopher and art critic, and Melanie de Salignac, a seventeen-year-old girl who had been totally blind since her infancy. I compare their discussion of her conceptualizations of visual phenomena to autobiographical accounts by blind people from the 19th century to the present, and to theories about brain plasticity developed by modern cognitive scientists who study images of blind people's brains
Blindness · Cognition · Developmental psychology · Enlightenment · Epistemology · Friendship · Girl · Psychoanalysis · Subject (documents) · Computer Science · French Literature and Critical Theory · Historical and Literary Analyses · Medicine · Neuroscience · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology · Tactile and Sensory Interactions · Optometry
| Citations per year | 0.13 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2018 - 2018 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |