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Blindness and Enlightenment: An Essay - With a new translation of Diderot's 'Letter on the Blind' and La Mothe Le Vayer's 'Of a Man Born Blind' (Paperback, New)
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Blindness and Enlightenment: An Essay - With a new translation of Diderot's 'Letter on the Blind' and La Mothe Le Vayer's 'Of a Man Born Blind' (Paperback, New)
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Blindness and Enlightenment presents a reading and a new
translation of Diderot's Letter on the Blind. Diderot was the
editor of the Encyclopedie, that Trojan horse of Enlightenment
ideas, as well as a novelist, playwright, art critic and
philosopher. His Letter on the Blind of 1749 is essential reading
for anyone interested in Enlightenment philosophy or
eighteenth-century literature because it contradicts a central
assumption of Western literature and philosophy, and of the
Enlightenment in particular, namely that moral and philosophical
insight is dependent on seeing. Kate Tunstall's essay guides the
reader through the Letter, its anecdotes, ideas and its
conversational mode of presenting them, and it situates the Letter
in relation both to the Encyclopedie and to a rich tradition of
writing about and, most importantly, talking and listening to the
blind.>
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