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Enlightenment, Romanticism, and the Blind in France
By (Author) William R. Paulson
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
23rd September 2014
United States
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Western philosophy: Enlightenment
840.90092
Paperback
272
Width 152mm, Height 229mm
369g
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, mad