Enlightenment, Romanticism, and the Blind in France

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ID9309068
AuthorsWilliam R Paulson, William Paulson (0000-0002-9643-5441, corresponding author)
Year1987
Pages272
Publication date1987-12-31
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueEnlightenment, Romanticism, and the Blind in France (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherPrinceton University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1515/9781400858583
OpenAlexW2059065833
Open LibraryOL29235847M
ISBN9781400858583
LanguageEN
Citations received14

Paulson examines literary, philosophical, and pedagogical writing on blindness in France from the Enlightenment, when philosophical speculation and surgical cures for cataracts demystified the difference between the blind and the sighted, to the nineteenth century, when the literary figure of the blind bard or seer linked blindness with genius, madness, and narrative art. A major theme of the book is the effect of blindness on the use of language and sign systems: the philosophes were concerned at first with understanding the doctrine of innate ideas, rather than with understanding blindness as such. Originally published in 1987. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905

Art · Art history · Blindness · Enlightenment · Epistemology · Genius · Literature · Mythology · Narrative · Romanticism · Sign (mathematics · Theme (computing · Classics · Historical and Literary Studies · History · Medicine · Philosophy · France · Social conditions

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