NEW FROM Seeing with the Hands Blindness, Vision and Touch After Descartes Mark Paterson A literary, historical and philosophical discussion of attitudes to blindness by the sighted, and what the blind 'see' The 'man born blind restored to light' was one of the foundational myths of the Enlightenment, according to Foucault. With ophthalmic surgery in its infancy, the fascination by the sighted with blindness and what the blind might 'see' after sight restoration remained largely speculative. Was being blind, as Descartes once remarked, like 'seeing with the hands'? Did evidence from early cataract operations begin to resolve epistemological debates about the relationship between vision and touch in the newly sighted, such as the famous 'Molyneux Question' posed by William Molyneux to John Locke? More recently, how have autobiographical accounts of blind and vision impaired writers and poets advanced the sighted public's understanding of blind subjectivity? Through an unfolding historical, philosophical and literary narrative that includes Locke, Molyneux and Berkeley in Britain, and Diderot, Voltaire and Buffon in France, this book explores how the Molyneux Question and its aftermath has influenced attitudes towards blindness by the sighted, and sensory substitution technologies for the blind and vision impaired, to this day. March 2016 North America: April 2016 224 HB 978-1-4744-0531-7 PB 978-1-4744-0532-4 HB Price: PB Price: £85.00 £19.99 / $140.00 / $34.95 pp • EUP, The Tun-Holyrood Road, 12 (2f) Jackson's Entry, Edinburgh, EH8 8PJ Edinburgh University press is distributed by Oxford University Press in North America. To purchase your hardback copy for $98.00 (usual price $140.00) or paperback copy for $24.47 (usual price $34.95)* just quote AAFLYG6 at the checkout at https://global.oup.com/academic *Discount price does not include postage and packaging; offer valid until August 2016 Save 30%