I see a voice : deafness, language, and the senses--a philosophical history / Jonathan Rée.
I see a voice : deafness, language, and the senses--a philosophical history / Jonathan Rée.
I see a voice : deafness, language, and the senses--a philosophical history / Jonathan Rée.
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New York : Metropolitan Books, H. Holt and Co., 1999.
Date
1999.
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T0384439
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English
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xvi, 399 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents
Introduction: The magic of the voice -- 1. Sound, voice and the soul: A history of metaphysics. 1. Sound and Substance. 2. Physics and colour-music. 3. Metaphysics, idealism and the blind. 4. Grammar, sound and horror. 5. Listening with the voice. 6. Voice as expression. 7. Speech and repetition. 8....
22. Painting the voice. 23. Writing and the analysis of speech. 24. Signs and primitive culture. 25. Writing signs. 26. The science of Sign Languages -- 3. The senses and the self: A history of philosophy. 27. The five senses and the history of philosophy. 28. Space, time and the aesthetic theory of...
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New York : Metropolitan Books, H. Holt and Co., 1999.
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1st American ed.
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New York (State)
Date Published
1999.
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"In this tour de force of historical narrative, Jonathan Ree tells the astonishing story of the plight of the deaf from the sixteenth century to the present. He explores the great debates about deafness and its 'cure,' from the 'oralists' who believed that the deaf should be forced to speak, to the 'gesturalists' who advocated sign-language and eve...
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I see a voice : deafness, language, and the senses--a philosophical history / Jonathan Rée.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Transferred from N419/30.
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T0384439
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0805062548 (hbk. : alk. paper)
9780805062540 (hbk. : alk. paper)
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419
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991011927719702626
