EAN: 9781848856905

LIFE UNSEEN - SELINA MILLS GEBUNDEN

Imagine a world without sight. Is it dark and gloomy? Is it terrifying and isolating? Or is it
simply a state of not seeing  which we have demonised and sentimentalized over the centuries?
And why is blindness so frightening? In this fascinating historical adventure  Broadcaster and
author Selina Mills takes us on a journey through the history of blindness in Western Culture
to discover that blindness is not so dark after all. Inspired by her own experience of losing
her sight as she forged a successful journalistic career  Life Unseen takes us through a
personal and unsentimental historical quest through the lives  stories and achievements of
blind people - as well as those sighted people who sought to patronize  demonize and fix them.
From the blind poet Homer  through the myths and moralising of early medieval culture to the
scientific and medical discoveries of the Enlightenment and modern times  the story of
blindness turns out to be a story of our whole culture.

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