About face
| Titel: | About face : German physiognomic thought from Lavater to Auschwitz / Richard T. Gray |
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| Veröffentlicht: | Detroit : Wayne State Univ. Press, 2004 |
| Umfang: | LVI, 453 S. : Ill. ; 24 cm |
| Format: | Buch |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Schriftenreihe/ mehrbändiges Werk: |
Kritik: German literary theory and cultural studies |
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| ISBN: | 0814331793 |
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Inhaltsverzeichnis
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- List of Illustrations
- p. xi
- Preface: About Face
- p. xvii
- Introduction: Physiognomic "Surface Hermeneutics" and the Ideological Context of German Modernism
- p. xxix
- 1.
- Science and Semiotics in the Physiognomic Theories of Johann Caspar Lavater
- p. 1
- Physiognomics and the Spirit of Enlightenment
- p. 1
- The Aporias of Enlightenment Semiotics
- p. 13
- Enlightenment Semiotics as Theoretical Foundation of Lavater's Physiognomics
- p. 27
- 2.
- Sign and Sein: Physiognomics, Phrenology, and the Dispute over the Semiotic Constitution of Modern Individuality
- p. 57
- Franz Joseph Gall's Phrenology and Lavater's Physiognomics
- p. 57
- Physiognomics and Individuality
- p. 69
- 3.
- Physiognomics between Humanism and Racism: Johann Caspar Lavater and Carl Gustav Carus
- p. 99
- Lavater as Forerunner of Racial Physiognomics
- p. 99
- Carl Gustav Carus: The Physiognomic Grounding of Racial Inequality
- p. 113
- 4.
- Goethe as Found(l)ing Father of Modern German Physiognomics
- p. 137
- The Founding Father as Foundling Father
- p. 137
- Goethe as Physiognomist and Morphologist
- p. 139
- Carl Gustav Carus: Symbolism and Racism
- p. 151
- Ludwig Klages: Metamorphosis as the Adversary of Stasis
- p. 157
- Oswald Spengler: Physiognomics as Anti-Systematics
- p. 163
- Rudolf Kassner: Unquantifiable Face
- p. 167
- Concluding Intellectual-Historical Remarks
- p. 174
- 5.
- The Emergence of the "Physiognomic Worldview" in Weimar Germany: Oswald Spengler and Rudolf Kassner
- p. 177
- The Physiognomic Boom in Weimar Germany
- p. 177
- Physiognomics and Cultural Morphology in Oswald Spengler's Untergang des Abendlandes
- p. 182
- Rudolf Kassner and Physiognomic Imagination
- p. 193
- Spengler, Kassner, and the Ideological Complicity of Humanistic and Racial Physiognomics
- p. 202
- 6.
- Constructing Race: Hans F. K. Gunther's Ethnological Physiognomics
- p. 219
- The Fusion of Racial Ethnology and Physiognomics
- p. 219
- Gunther's Racial Physiognomics and the Physiognomic Tradition
- p. 236
- Gunther's Conception of Cultural History
- p. 244
- The Ethics of Existential Decisionism
- p. 251
- From Theory to Practice: Gunther's Applied Physiognomics
- p. 254
- Conclusion
- p. 271
- 7.
- Learning to See (Race): Ludwig Ferdinand Clauss's Racial Psychology as Applied Phenomenology
- p. 273
- Modernism and the Physiognomic Gaze
- p. 273
- Somatology versus Psychology: The Methodological Breach in Fascist Racial Ideology
- p. 274
- Clauss's "Racial Psychology" as Stylistics of Character
- p. 286
- Clauss's Adaptation of Husserlian Phenomenology
- p. 302
- Husserlian Anschauung as the Ground of Clauss's Racial Panopticism
- p. 322
- Racial Physiognomics and the German Physiognomic Tradition
- p. 331
- Conclusion: Envisioning the Invisible: Technologies of Seeing in the History of Physiognomics
- p. 333
- Objective Representation: From Silhouette to Photograph
- p. 333
- Counter-Racist Physiognomics: The Photography of August Sander
- p. 369
- Notes
- p. 381
- Select Bibliography
- p. 397
- Index
- p. 429
