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Author : Jacques Pernetti
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Total Pages : 292 pages
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Download or read book Lettres philosophiques sur les physionomies written by Jacques Pernetti and published by . This book was released on 1746 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jacques Pernetti
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Total Pages : 240 pages
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Download or read book Lettres philosophiques written by Jacques Pernetti and published by . This book was released on 1748 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Melissa Percival
Publisher : MHRA
ISBN 13 : 9781902653075
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (53 download)
Download or read book The Appearance of Character written by Melissa Percival and published by MHRA. This book was released on 1999 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Physiognomy - the notion that there is a relationship between character and physical appearance - is often dismissed as a marginal pseudoscience; however, The Appearance of Character argues that it is central to many disciplines and thought processes, and that it constantly adapts itself to current patterns of thought and modes of discourse. This interdisciplinary study determines the characteristics of physiognomical thought in France during the previously neglected period leading up to the reception of Johann Caspar Lavater's physiognomy in the early 1780s. It establishes a corpus of physiognomical texts, juxtaposing `mainstream' figures such as Buffon and Diderot with a host of minor writers. It then considers the representation of the passions in art, examining the legacy of Charles LeBrun, and revealing an aesthetics of facial representation where the passions are conceived in terms of multiplicity, speed, and nuance. The contribution of the Comte de Caylus to the development of the `tete d'expression' is analysed, as well as the innovations of Greuze in the field of expression. Physiognomy in portraiture is also addressed through the work of La Tour. Facial expression in painting is found to have strong parallels with contemporary acting theory and stage practice. Finally, The Appearance of Character addresses the notion of character, outlining various predominant theories, and analysing the complex relationship between character and passions. In this respect, the study has ramifications for theories of the self and individualism in the Enlightenment and beyond.
Author : Guillaume Hyacinthe Bougeant
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Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Lettres philosophiques sur les physionomies written by Guillaume Hyacinthe Bougeant and published by . This book was released on 1746 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jacques Pernetti
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Total Pages : 292 pages
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Download or read book Lettres philosophiques sur les physionomies written by Jacques Pernetti and published by . This book was released on 1746 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Graeme Tytler
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400857260
Total Pages : 458 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Physiognomy in the European Novel written by Graeme Tytler and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-14 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After discussing Lavater's place in eighteenth-century German letters and his importance in the history of Western physiognomy, Dr. Tytler examines the literary portrait in the modern novel and suggests that the development of techniques of character description and the growth of observational powers of narrators and characters alike, as manifest in fiction from the 1790s onward, may be more fully appreciated when considered in the light of the physiognomical background previously delineated. Originally published in 1982. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Author : Massimo Ciavolella
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3111240738
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (112 download)
Download or read book Physiognomy at the Crossroad of Magic, Science, and the Arts written by Massimo Ciavolella and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2024-09-23 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays examine how the study of facial features or expressions as indicative of character or ethnicity, has evolved from the crossroad of magic, religion and primitive medicine to present-day cultural concern for wellness and beauty. In this context, the discoveries of cranio-facial neurophysiology and psychology and the practice of cosmetic and reconstructive surgery have a centuries-old relationship with physiognomy. As the study of outward appearances evolved from its classical roots and self-representations through 18th- and 19th-century adaptations in fiction and travelogues, it gradually became a scientific discipline. Along the way, physiognomy was associated with phrenology and craniology and promoted eugenic policies. Tainted with racial bigotry and biological determinism, it was trapped within questions of delinquency, monstrosity and posthumanism. Throughout its history, physiognomy played both positive and negative roles in the evolution of significant aspects of the socio-cultural order in the West that merit update and in-depth study. The contributions follow a chronological and intertwining sequence to encompass physiognomic expressions in art, literature, spirituality, science, philosophy and cultural studies.
Author : Aram Vartanian
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400878012
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)
Download or read book LaMettrie's L'Homme Machine written by Aram Vartanian and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2015-12-08 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a classic of the French Enlightenment, L'Homme Machine has in the past been of equal interest to students of philosophy, science, and literature. The present edition offers the first established text, with extensive notes. In his introduction, Dr. Vartanian discusses La Mettrie’s thesis, its sources, the place of the man-machine idea in the development of La Mettrie’s materialism, and its critical impact on the intellectual struggles of the eighteenth century. Originally published in 1960. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Author : Robert Lenox Kennedy
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Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Bibliotheca Excellentissima: Being an Extremely Choice and Valuable Collection of Books, Including the Major Portion of the Library and Prints of the Late Robert Lenox Kennedy written by Robert Lenox Kennedy and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Davide Stimilli
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 0791484246
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (914 download)
Download or read book The Face of Immortality written by Davide Stimilli and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The literature on physiognomy—the art of studying a person's outward appearance, especially the face, in order to determine character and intelligence—has flourished in recent years in the wake of renewed scholarly interest in the history and politics of the body. Virtually no attention, however, has been devoted to the vocabulary and rhetoric of physiognomy. The Face of Immortality addresses this gap, arguing that the trend in Western culture has been to obliterate the face, which is manifested in criticism as a disregard for the letter. Denouncing this trend, Davide Stimilli draws on Hebrew, Greek, Latin, Italian, English, and German sources in order to explore the terminology and historical development of physiognomy. Stimilli takes physiognomy to be the resistance to such an obliteration of the face, and argues that it offers a model for a theory of reading that does not discount the letter as inessential. Elaborating on the work of Walter Benjamin, he defines the task of physiognomical criticism as transliteration (which preserves the letter) rather than translation (which obliterates it). The Face of Immortality is meant to exemplify the method and test the reach of such a criticism, which aims at mediating between philology and philosophy, between literal and allegorical modes of interpretation.
Author : Armand Mattelart
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 9780816626977
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (269 download)
Download or read book The Invention of Communication written by Armand Mattelart and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A tour of the multiple usages and systems that each historic period puts forth in the name of communication. This genealogy maps the many means by which humans interact - from cataloguing others, to asserting power over them, to working together with them to build new forms of community. Included are topics such as the elaboration of warfare as a logistic; the rise of professional societies of propaganda and national propagation; the history of universal expositions and world fairs; the birth of documentary and film out of physiological investigations in the 19th century; the development of press and the popular novel; and the origins of American social science. The history runs from the circuits of exchange to the circulation of goods, people and messages, from the construction of railroads to the emergence of long-distance communication. The author brings a clarifying perspective to the ideologies and theories that accompany these transformations.
Author : John Strange
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Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book Bibliotheca Strangeiana written by John Strange and published by . This book was released on 1801 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 468 pages
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Author : Library of Congress
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Total Pages : 712 pages
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Author : William F. Bynum
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521361149
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (611 download)
Download or read book Medicine and the Five Senses written by William F. Bynum and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1993-02-26 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From ancient Greece to the CAT scanner, these essays examine the 'education of the senses' in medical diagnosis and treatment.
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Total Pages : 332 pages
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Author : Adolf Wilhelm Theodor Stahr
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Total Pages : 412 pages
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