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Hardcover Seeing with the Hands: Blindness, Vision and Touch After Descartes Book

ISBN: 1474405312

ISBN13: 9781474405317

Seeing with the Hands: Blindness, Vision and Touch After Descartes

A literary, historical and philosophical discussion of attitudes to blindness by the sighted, and what the blind 'see'
Why has there been a persistent fascination by the sighted, including philosophers, poets and the public, in what the blind 'see'? Is the experience of being blind, as Descartes declared, like 'seeing with the hands'? What happens on the rare occasions when surgery allows previously blind people to see for the very first...

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