Blindness : the history of a mental image in western thought / Moshe Barasch.
Material type: TextPublisher: New York : Routledge, 2001Description: xi, 184 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0415927439
- 9780415927437
- 0415927420
- 9780415927420
- 305.908161
- HV1581. B37 2001
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305.90816 KIN Maori concepts of disability / | 305.908160993021 DIS Disability counts. | 305.908161 AME American deaf culture : an anthology / | 305.908161 BAR Blindness : the history of a mental image in western thought / | 305.908161 LUC Language contact in the American deaf community / | 305.908162 CON Constructing deafness / | 305.908162 CON Constructing deafness / |
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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