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Kate E. Tunstall - Blindness and Enlightenment: An Essay, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2011

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'

Av Kate E. Tunstall

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This is a new reading and translation, the first into English since the eighteenth-century, of Diderot's "Letter on the Blind for Use by the Sighted". "Blindness and Enlightenment" presents a reading and translation of Diderot's "Letter on the Blind for Use by the Sighted" (the first translation into English since the eighteenth-century). Diderot was the founder and editor of the "Encyclopedie", a novelist, a philosopher and an active proponent of democratic ideals. His "Letter on the Blind" is essential reading for anyone interested in Enlightenment philosophy or eighteenth-century literature. By discussing the blind, Diderot undercuts a central assumption of the Enlightenment, present in the very term itself in its reference to 'light', namely that moral and philosophical insight was dependent on seeing.
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  • Utgivningsdatum: 2011-08-18
  • Mått: 138 x 216 x 17 mm
  • Vikt: 314 g
  • Format: Häftad
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 256
  • Förlag: Continuum Publishing Corporation
  • ISBN: 9781441119322
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Kate E. Tunstall is University Lecturer in French at the University of Oxford and Fellow of Worcestor College. She is Programme Director of Oxford's Besterman Centre for the Enlightenment and is on the Board of Directors of the Oxford Amnesty Lectures. She has been a Visiting Lecturer at Paris III-Sorbonne Nouvelle and Kennedy Memorial Fellow at Harvard University. She is the editor of the forthcoming Self-Evident Truths?: Human Rights and the Enlightenment. She co-wrote and co-presented (with Caroline Warman) a series of BBC radio programmes on Diderot.

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"Diderot's study of cognitive deprivation as a way of understanding cognition itself is one of the most innovative moves in a century of intellectual innovation. Kate Tunstall's brilliant new translation and edition, accompanied by a lucid, witty and incisive essay that initiates the reader admirably into the complex problems raised by the Letter, will be a major resource for anyone wishing to understand core issues in the Enlightenment." - Terence Cave, Emeritus Research Fellow, St John's College, University of Oxford, UK

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