Blindness : the history of a mental image in western thought /
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| Author / Creator: | Barasch, Moshe. |
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| Imprint: | New York : Routledge, 2001. |
| Description: | xi, 184 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4436464 |
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