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Blindness : the history of a mental image in western thought / Moshe Barasch.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Routledge, 2001Description: xi, 184 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0415927439
  • 9780415927437
  • 0415927420
  • 9780415927420
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 305.908161
LOC classification:
  • HV1581. B37 2001
Contents:
List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Antiquity -- Attitudes of the Bible -- Classical Antiquity: Causes of Blindness -- Blindness and Guilt -- The Blind Seer -- Ate -- Visual Representations -- A Concluding Note -- 2. The Blind in the Early Christian World -- The Healing of the Blind -- Blindness and Revelation: The Story of Paul -- A Concluding Observation -- 3. The Middle Ages -- The Antichrist -- Allegorical Blindness -- The Blind Beggar -- The Blind and His Guide -- 4. The Renaissance and Its Sequel -- The Blind Beggar -- Metaphorical Blindness -- The Revival of the Blind Seer -- Early Secularizations of the Blind -- 5. The Disenchantment of Blindness: Diderot's Lettre sur les aveugles -- Notes -- Index.
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Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Book City Campus City Campus Main Collection 305.908161 BAR (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available A255994B

Includes bibliographical references and index.

List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Antiquity -- Attitudes of the Bible -- Classical Antiquity: Causes of Blindness -- Blindness and Guilt -- The Blind Seer -- Ate -- Visual Representations -- A Concluding Note -- 2. The Blind in the Early Christian World -- The Healing of the Blind -- Blindness and Revelation: The Story of Paul -- A Concluding Observation -- 3. The Middle Ages -- The Antichrist -- Allegorical Blindness -- The Blind Beggar -- The Blind and His Guide -- 4. The Renaissance and Its Sequel -- The Blind Beggar -- Metaphorical Blindness -- The Revival of the Blind Seer -- Early Secularizations of the Blind -- 5. The Disenchantment of Blindness: Diderot's Lettre sur les aveugles -- Notes -- Index.

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