Seeing Voices

7 hrs. 59 min.

Popular Science

Language Russian

Author Oliver Sacks

Narrator Larisa Luganskaya

Description

Sign language of the deaf. What is it—pantоmime, more or less successfully illustrating speech sounds? Or an independent language with its own grammar and semantics that does not уступать spoken language in anything? In his work “Seeing Voices”—one of the most interesting of his writings—Oliver Sacks puts forward a bold and original theory according to which sign language is the true, original language of the brain.

But the book’s main value lies in real stories of people with disabilities—not simply fighting for a full life, but overcoming this struggle and winning!..

A scientist, a romantic, an ethicist, and a thinker—Oliver Sacks sees his mission as reminding us what it means to be human.