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About Face: German Physiognomic Thought from Lavater to Auschwitz - Kritik: German Literary Theory and Cultural Studies Series Richard T. Gray
About Face: German Physiognomic Thought from Lavater to Auschwitz - Kritik: German Literary Theory and Cultural Studies Series
Richard T. Gray
The art of interpreting personal character based on facial and other physical features dates back to antiquity. About Face tells the intriguing story of how physiognomics became particularly popular during the Enlightenment, no longer as a mere parlor game but as an empirically grounded discipline.
464 pages, 77 illustrations
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | March 29, 2004 |
| ISBN13 | 9780814331798 |
| Publishers | Wayne State University Press |
| Pages | 464 |
| Dimensions | 162 × 235 × 37 mm · 938 g |
| Language | English |
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