The Pocket Lavater, Or, The Science of Physiognomy
Author | : Johann Caspar Lavater |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 1817 |
Genre | : Physiognomy |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Johann Caspar Lavater |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 1817 |
Genre | : Physiognomy |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Johann Caspar Lavater |
Publisher | : DigiCat |
Total Pages | : 80 |
Release | : 2022-09-04 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Pocket Lavater; or, The Science of Physiognomy" (To which is added an inquiry into the analogy existing between brute and human physiognomy) by Johann Caspar Lavater, Giambattista della Porta. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Author | : Norbert Glas |
Publisher | : Temple Lodge Publishing |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Physiognomy |
ISBN | : 1902636937 |
As a boy traveling to school by streetcar, Norbert Glas often passed the time by studying the faces of his fellow passengers, pondering the significance of the shapes and contours of their noses, eyes, and mouths. Later in life, after becoming a medical doctor and a student of Rudolf Steiner's spiritual science, Glas gained greater insight into the mysteries of human physiognomy. In Reading the Face, the first translation into English of his seminal work, Glas begins by defining the three parts of the human face and explaining the importance of their relative proportions. A face that is more pronounced in any of these areas tends to indicate certain personality traits and specific physiological characteristics. People with a strong mouth and chin, for example, tend to have a strong will and an active, driven, and assertive nature. With the help of many photos and drawings, Glas presents the physiognomy of three basic types and analyses the specifics of the head, forehead, ears, eyes, mouth, and nose. Reading the Face will be valuable to doctors, teachers, and anyone who wants to better understand, accept, and love others.
Author | : Johann Caspar Lavater |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 606 |
Release | : 1804 |
Genre | : Facial expression |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Kamila Pawlikowska |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 250 |
Release | : 2015-10-05 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9004302263 |
Anti-Portraits: Poetics of the Face in Modern English, Polish and Russian Literature (1835-1965) is a study of a-physiognomic descriptions of the face. It demonstrates that writers such as George Eliot, Leo Tolstoy, Edgar Allan Poe, Nicolay Gogol, Virginia Woolf and Witold Gombrowicz vigorously resisted the belief that facial features reflect character. While other studies tend to focus on descriptions which affirm physiognomy, this book examines portraits which question popular face-reading systems and contravene their common premise – the surface-depth principle. Such portraits reveal that physiognomic formula is a cultural construct, invented to abridge, organise and regulate legibility of the human face. Most importantly, strange and ‘unreadable’ fictional faces frequently expose the connection between physiognomic judgement and stereotyping, prejudice and racism.
Author | : John Graham |
Publisher | : Peter Lang Group Ag, International Academic Publishers |
Total Pages | : 138 |
Release | : 1979 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : |
"Lavater's Physiognomy: an international checklist of publications": p. 85-101.
Author | : Miriam Claude Meijer |
Publisher | : Rodopi |
Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9789042004344 |
After the discovery of the anthropoid ape in Asia and in Africa, eighteenth-century Holland became the crossroads of Enlightenment debates about the human species. Material evidence about human diversity reached Petrus Camper, comparative anatomist in the Netherlands, who engaged, among many other interests, in "menschkunde." Could only religious doctrine support the belief of human demarcation from animals? Camper resolved the challenges raised by overseas discoveries with his thesis of the "facial angle," a theory which succeeding generations distorted and misused in order to justify slavery, racism, antisemitism, and genocide. Thanks to his abundant papers in Dutch archives, Camper's ideas are restored to their original state. Eighteenth-century issues differed from those of other centuries: Did orang-utans talk like humans, walk like humans; even rape humans? What was the skin pigmentation of Adam and Eve? Did the spectrum of human physiognomies around the globe reflect the Fall of Man, the Creator's bounty, or merely bizarre beauty practices? Why did the ideal beauty of the Greeks appear to be the reverse of the Hottentots? The book contains some 50 illustrations, including apes with hiking sticks or tea cups, metamorphoses of living forms, and Apollo or Venus icons which titillated the "science of man."
Author | : Eugene Soltes |
Publisher | : PublicAffairs |
Total Pages | : 460 |
Release | : 2016-10-11 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1610395379 |
What drives wealthy and powerful people to white-collar crime? Why They Do It is a breakthrough look at the dark side of the business world. From the financial fraudsters of Enron, to the embezzlers at Tyco, to the insider traders at McKinsey, to the Ponzi schemer Bernie Madoff, the failings of corporate titans are regular fixtures in the news. In Why They Do It, Harvard Business School professor Eugene Soltes draws from extensive personal interaction and correspondence with nearly fifty former executives as well as the latest research in psychology, criminology, and economics to investigate how once-celebrated executives become white-collar criminals. White-collar criminals are not merely driven by excessive greed or hubris, nor do they usually carefully calculate costs and benefits before breaking the law. Instead, Soltes shows that most of the executives who committed crimes made decisions the way we all do-on the basis of their intuitions and gut feelings. The trouble is that these gut feelings are often poorly suited for the modern business world where leaders are increasingly distanced from the consequences of their decisions and the individuals they impact. The extraordinary costs of corporate misconduct are clear to its victims. Yet, never before have we been able to peer so deeply into the minds of the many prominent perpetrators of white-collar crime. With the increasing globalization of business threatening us with even more devastating corporate misconduct, the lessons Soltes draws in Why They Do It are needed more urgently than ever.