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Enlightenment, Romanticism, and the Blind in France
Language: en
Pages: 271
Authors: William R. Paulson
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-07-14 - Publisher: Princeton University Press

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Paulson examines literary, philosophical, and pedagogical writing on blindness in France from the Enlightenment, when philosophical speculation and surgical cur
Blindness and Enlightenment: An Essay
Language: en
Pages: 251
Authors: Kate E. Tunstall
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-08-18 - Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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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 Encyclopédie, that Trojan
Downcast Eyes
Language: en
Pages: 652
Authors: Martin Jay
Categories: Philosophy
Type: BOOK - Published: 1993 - Publisher: Univ of California Press

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Long considered "the noblest of the senses," vision has increasingly come under critical scrutiny by a wide range of thinkers who question its dominance in West
Romantic Cartographies
Language: en
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Authors: Sally Bushell
Categories: Art
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-12-10 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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An innovative, interdisciplinary study of cartography as a significant multifaceted cultural practice in Romantic period culture.
Reading the French Enlightenment
Language: en
Pages: 260
Authors: Julie Candler Hayes
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 1999-07-15 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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In this 1999 book, Julie Candler Hayes offers an ambitious reinterpretation of a crucial aspect of Enlightenment thought, the rationalizing and classifying impu