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Named Person: | Louis Braille |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Zina Weygand |
ISBN: | 9780804757683 0804757682 |
OCLC Number: | 624426414 |
Notes: | Traduction de : Vivre sans voir. 2003. |
Description: | xiii, 403 pages |
Contents: | pt. 1. From the Middle Ages to the Classical Age : a paradoxical vision of blindness and the blind. The Middle Ages -- The beginning of modern times -- Groundwork for a history of blindness in the Classical Age -- pt. 2. The eighteenth century : another way of looking at the blind. Sensationalism and sensorial impairments -- Philanthropy and the education of the sensorially impaired -- The move of the Quinze-Vingts and the annuity from the public treasury -- pt. 3. The French Revolution and the blind : an affair of state. The establishment of the Institute for the Deaf, Dumb, and Blind (1791-1794) -- The National Institute for Blind Workers -- The merging of the National Institute for Blind Workers and the Hospice of the Quinze-Vingts -- pt. 4. Blindness in France in the early nineteenth century : realities and fictions. The blind in France at the beginning of the nineteenth century -- Social representations and literary figures of blindness in the first third of the nineteenth century -- pt. 5. Blindness in the century of Louis Braille : from productivist utopia to cultural integration. The Quinze-Vingts under the Consulate and the Empire : implementing a productivist utopia -- The Quinze-Vingts under the Restoration : a "memory site" of the ultra-royalist reaction -- The Royal Institute for Blind Youth under the Restoration. |
Other Titles: | Vivre sans voir. |
Responsibility: | Zina Weygand ; translated by Emily-Jane Cohen. |
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"I must first of all underscore the contribution Zina Weygand has made to the history of the longue duree that is still sorely lacking in disability studies. The history of the disabled and of disabilities is barely twenty years old. It still has almost no place in universities. It has been introduced by pioneers who have had recourse to history, in response to practices and social policies they find questionable [...]" -- <I>Esprit</I> "In this erudite, sensitive, witty, and impeccably-documented book Zina Weygand draws from the rich tradition of the French Annales school, while also offering something completely new. Thanks to her energy and creativity as a researcher, we meet scores of people who might otherwise be "victims of the vagaries of existence," from the first troupe of blind actors to the "individualist, dirty, noisy, and quarrelsome" residents of the Quinze-Vingts hospice.... Weygand's in-depth study of the reciprocal relationship between the social treatment and representations of blind people from the Middle Ages to the middle of the nineteenth century invites readers to reconsider the ocularcentric roots of modernity."-From the foreword by Catherine Kudlick, University of California, Davis "Until recently, historical studies of disability [...] have had difficulty finding their bearings [] Zina Weygand's work on the blind [...] is new evidence of the vitality of historical research in little known and insufficiently explored domains." -- <I>Le Monde</I> Initiatives Read more...

