| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 238 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
'Font-style: italic;'>List of Figures appearing in the Essay 'font-style: italic;' /> 'font-style: italic;'>Acknowledgements 'font-style: italic;' /> 'font-style: italic;'>Note on the References    Prologue, or Operation Enlightenment Introduction: Optics and Tactics One: Reading is Believing? Two: The Blind Leading the Blind Leading the Blind Leading the Blind Leading the Blind ... Three: Point of View and 'font-style: italic;'>Point de Vue Four: Groping Around in the Light Five: A Supplement to Saunderson's 'font-style: italic;'>Memoirs Six: Dis/Solving Molyneux's Problem Conclusion, or Two Hours Later ... Bibliography Index Appendices I. Denis Diderot, 'font-style: italic;'>The Letter on the Blind for the Use of Those Who Can See (1749) 'font-style: italic;'>Note on the Translation 'font-style: italic;' /> 'font-style: italic;'>Translation II. François de La Mothe Le Vayer, 'Of a Man-Born-Blind' (1653) 'font-style: italic;'>Note on the Translation 'font-style: italic;' /> 'font-style: italic;'>Translation |
| Summary |
"A new reading and translation, the first into English since the eighteenth-century, of Diderot's Letter on the Blind for Use by the Sighted"--Provided by publisher |
| Notes |
"With a new translation of Diderot's Letter on the blind (1749)and a translation of La Mothe Le Vayer's Of a Man-Born-Blind (1653) |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| SUBJECT |
Diderot, Denis, 1713-1784. Lettre sur les aveugles. czenas |
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La Mothe Le Vayer, François de, 1588-1672. D'un aveugle-né. czenas |
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Blind.
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Blind -- Education.
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Blindness.
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Enlightenment.
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Medicine -- Religious aspects.
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Education of Visually Disabled -- history
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Blindness -- history
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Philosophy -- history
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Religion and Medicine
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Visually Impaired Persons
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Blindness
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blind (people)
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blindness.
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Enlightenment (18th-century western movement)
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Western philosophy: Enlightenment.
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Literary studies: general.
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Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Security.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Services & Welfare.
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vizuální vnímání -- filozofické aspekty.
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slepota.
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nevidomí.
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poznání.
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osvícenství.
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osvícenství -- Francie.
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francouzská filozofie -- 17.-18. stol.
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literatura a filozofie -- Francie -- 17.-18. stol.
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Medicine -- Religious aspects
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Blind
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Blind -- Education
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Blindness
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Enlightenment
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Diderot, Denis, 1713-1784.
Lettre sur les aveugles. English
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| ISBN |
1441175431 |
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9781441175434 |
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9781441113450 |
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1441113452 |
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