About Face: German Physiognomic Thought from Lavater to Auschwitz (Kritik: German Literary Theory & Cultural Studies) (Kritik: German Literary Theory and Cultural Studies Series)

by RichardT.Gray (Author)

• New

  Hardcover
  2004

  $71.07

  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.