Blindness : the history of a mental image in western thought /

Blindness : the history of a mental image in western thought / Moshe Barasch.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Barasch, Moshe (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Routledge, 2001.
Subjects:
Blind > History
Blind > Public opinion
Blind in art
Blind in literature
Table of Contents:
  • List of Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 1. Antiquity
  • Attitudes of the Bible
  • Classical Antiquity: Causes of Blindness
  • Blindness and Guilt
  • The Blind Seer
  • Ate
  • Visual Representations
  • A Concluding Note
  • 2. The Blind in the Early Christian World
  • The Healing of the Blind
  • Blindness and Revelation: The Story of Paul
  • A Concluding Observation
  • 3. The Middle Ages
  • The Antichrist
  • Allegorical Blindness
  • The Blind Beggar
  • The Blind and His Guide
  • 4. The Renaissance and Its Sequel
  • The Blind Beggar
  • Metaphorical Blindness
  • The Revival of the Blind Seer
  • Early Secularizations of the Blind
  • 5. The Disenchantment of Blindness: Diderot's Lettre sur les aveugles
  • Notes
  • Index.
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    305.908161 BAR
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