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Hardcover About Face: German Physiognomic Thought from Lavater to Auschwitz Book
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ISBN: 0814331793

ISBN13: 9780814331798

About Face: German Physiognomic Thought from Lavater to Auschwitz

(Part of the Kritik: German Literary Theory and Cultural Studies Series)

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A critical history of physiognomic thought in German-speaking Europe that traces the roots of twentieth-century racial profiling to the Enlightenment.

Once associated with astrology and occultist prophecy, 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...

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