… In an era before the advent of modern neuroscience and psychology, physiognomy and phrenology were two of the primary tools that people used to understand the human mind.7 …
E Kronshage - Victorian Surfaces in Nineteenth-Century Literature …, 2021 - Springer
This chapter situates Conrad’s ironic treatment of the physiognomic surface/depth dichotomy within the context of urban flânerie. In The Secret Agent, the prime navigators of the London …
GC Bunn - History of the Human Sciences, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
… The expert eye should be able to assess and interpret such anomalous stigmata, as in obscene tattoos or idiosyncratic facial physiognomies, or through the assessment of the shapes …
… People in early modern England believed that God exposed and punished the crime of … Boasting that his physiognomic theory rarely let him down, on one occasion Garofalo claimed …
LJ LAWRENCE - THE HISTORICAL PAUL, 2005 - torrossa.com
… 2 By contrast, ancient physiognomic conventions were not so … 3 Physiognomic analysis was common in the ancient world, … 4 Grounded in Aristotelian thought, physiognomic reason …
R Hill - The Transatlantic Hispanic Baroque, 2016 - taylorfrancis.com
… from that taken by modern science (ie evolutionary … modernphysiognomy) overlooks a fundamental distinction: “The epistemological aim of lay taxonomy differs from that of [modern] …
… of the human face in modern literature, philosophy, and art. “Meaning is a physiognomy,” wrote … My final chapter looks into the ethics of physiognomy, asking what difference it makes …
… The aim of this study was to legitimize the expectations of facial physiognomy in audience … associated with facial form (Physiognomy, 2006, 2009b). In modern times, facial recognition …