De l'idéalisation du visuel à l'utopie de la cécité

After having highly idealized the sense of sight, having created for it a scale of which it would constitute the apogee, sight has reinvested itself in the divine framework of vision. Thanks to the Fathers of the Church, and more particularly to the notion of the third heaven of Saint Augustine, sight has gone from a sensory status to a sacred status. This communication was intended to demonstrate the illusory nature of this veneration of the visual sense by highlighting five points of philosophical ruptures. Finally, the question of the utopia and dystopia of blindness was tackled through several science fiction novels, ranging from the Land of the Blind in Wells to the Far Space of Melnik.