Blindness : the history of a mental image in western thought /
Moshe Barasch.
- xi, 184 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Antiquity -- Attitudes of the Bible -- Classical Antiquity: Causes of Blindness -- Blindness and Guilt -- The Blind Seer -- Ate -- Visual Representations -- A Concluding Note -- The Blind in the Early Christian World -- The Healing of the Blind -- Blindness and Revelation: The Story of Paul -- A Concluding Observation -- The Middle Ages -- The Antichrist -- Allegorical Blindness -- The Blind Beggar -- The Blind and His Guide -- The Renaissance and Its Sequel -- The Blind Beggar -- Metaphorical Blindness -- The Revival of the Blind Seer -- Early Secularizations of the Blind -- The Disenchantment of Blindness: Diderot's Lettre sur les aveugles -- Notes -- Index. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
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