Blindness and Enlightenment: An Essay(English, Paperback, Tunstall Kate E. Dr)

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Blindness and Enlightenment: An Essay(English, Paperback, Tunstall Kate E. Dr) is written by Tunstall Kate E. Dr and published by Continuum Publishing Corporation. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1441119329 (ISBN 10) and 9781441119322 (ISBN 13).

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.