There Plant Eyes: A Personal and Cultural History of Blindness Godin M. Leona
There Plant Eyes: A Personal and Cultural History of Blindness Godin M. Leona From Homer to Helen Keller, from Dune to Stevie Wonder, from the invention of braille to the science of echolocation, M.…
Specifikacia There Plant Eyes: A Personal and Cultural History of Blindness Godin M. Leona
There Plant Eyes: A Personal and Cultural History of Blindness Godin M. Leona
From Homer to Helen Keller, from Dune to Stevie Wonder, from the invention of braille to the science of echolocation, M. "[A] thought-provoking mixture of criticism, memoir, and advocacy." --The New YorkerThere Plant Eyes probes the ways in which blindness has shaped our ocularcentric culture, challenging deeply ingrained ideas about what it means to be "blind." For millennia, blindness has been used to signify such things as thoughtlessness ("blind faith"), irrationality ("blind rage"), and unconsciousness ("blind evolution"). Leona Godin explores the fascinating history of blindness, interweaving it with her own story of gradually losing her sight.
But at the same time, blind people have been othered as the recipients of special powers as compensation for lost sight (from the poetic gifts of John Milton to the heightened senses of the comic
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