Enlightenment, Romanticism, and the Blind in France (Princeton Legacy Library, 782) - Hardcover

Paulson, William R.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0691637814 ISBN 13: 9780691637815

Publisher: Princeton University Press, 2016

Synopsis

Paulson examines literary, philosophical, and pedagogical writing on blindness in France from the Enlightenment, when philosophical speculation and surgical cures for cataracts demystified the difference between the blind and the sighted, to the nineteenth century, when the literary figure of the blind bard or seer linked blindness with genius, madness, and narrative art. A major theme of the book is the effect of blindness on the use of language and sign systems: the philosophes were concerned at first with understanding the doctrine of innate ideas, rather than with understanding blindness as such.

Originally published in 1987.

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About this edition

• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 0691637814
• ISBN 13: 9780691637815
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 272