About face : German physiognomic thought from Lavater to Auschwitz / Richard T. Gray.
Pubblicazione:
Detroit : Wayne State university press, c2004.
Descrizione fisica:
LVI, 453 p. : ill., ritr. ; 24 cm
Serie:
Kritik
Contiene:
Indice: List of illustrations. Preface: About face. Introduction: Physiognomic surface hermeneutics and the ideological context of German modernism. 1. Science and semiotics in the physiognomic theories of Johann Caspar Lavater 2. Sign and Sein: physiognomics, phrenology and the dispute over the semiotic constitution of modern individuality 3. Physiognomics between humanism and racism: Johann Caspar Lavater and Carl Gustav Carus 4. Goethe as found(l)ing father of modern German physiognomics 5. The emergence of the physiognomic worldview in Weimar Germany: Oswald Spengler and Rudolf Kassner 6. Constructing race: Hans F.K. Günther's ethnological physiognomics 7. Learning to see (race): Ludwig Ferdinand Clauss's racial psychology as applied phenomenology. Conclusion: Envisioning the invisible: technologies of seeing in the history of physiognomics
