About Face: German Physiognomic Thought from Lavater to Auschwitz

by Richard T. Gray

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814331793
• ISBN13: 9780814331798
• Release Date: March 2004
• Publisher: Wayne State University Press
• Length: 453 Pages
• Weight: 2.07 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.3" x 9.2"