Seeing Voices
Seeing Voices by Oliver Sacks, published by Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group on November 28, 2000, is a reprint edition comprising 240 pages. This book explores the world of deaf culture and the intricate visual language used by the congenitally deaf. Sacks, a renowned neurologist, presents a thoughtful examination of communication, biology, adaptation, and culture, challenging conventional views on deafness and language.
Readers will find a detailed exploration of the unique culture of the deaf community, highlighting their rich traditions and modes of communication. Sacks delves into the complexities of how language functions in both deaf and hearing individuals, offering insights into the neurological aspects of hearing and speech. This edition serves as a significant contribution to the fields of health, fitness, audiology, and neurology, providing a nuanced understanding of a minority striving for recognition and respect.
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The renowned neurologist and bestselling author of The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat takes us on a journey into the world of deaf culture, and the underpinnings of the remarkable visual language of the congenitally deaf.
“This book will shake your preconceptions about the deaf, about language and about thought…. One of the finest and most thoughtful writers of our time.” —Los Angeles Times Book Review
Like The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, this is a fascinating voyage into a strange and wonderful land, a provocative meditation on communication, biology, adaptation, and culture. In Seeing Voices, Oliver Sacks turns his attention to the subject of deafness, and the result is a deeply felt portrait of a minority struggling for recognition and respect—a minority with its own rich, sometimes astonishing, culture and unique visual language, an extraordinary mode of communication that tells us much about the basis of language in hearing people as well.
Seeing Voices is, as Studs Terkel has written, “an exquisite, as well as revelatory, work.”
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