Physiognomy after Lavater : A Mediatheoretical Approach

Research Project

Project/Area Number	19520267
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
Allocation Type	Single-year Grants
Section	一般
Research Field	ヨーロッパ語系文学
Research Institution	Waseda University
Principal Investigator	KAMIO Tatsuyuki 早稲田大学, 教育・総合科学学術院, 教授 (60152849)
Project Period (FY)	2007 – 2010
Project Status	Completed (Fiscal Year 2010)
Budget Amount *help	¥3,640,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥840,000) Fiscal Year 2010: ¥910,000 (Direct Cost: ¥700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥210,000) Fiscal Year 2009: ¥910,000 (Direct Cost: ¥700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥210,000) Fiscal Year 2008: ¥910,000 (Direct Cost: ¥700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥210,000) Fiscal Year 2007: ¥910,000 (Direct Cost: ¥700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥210,000)
Keywords	観相学 / 身体表象 / ラーヴァーター / メディア論 / 文化学
Research Abstract	Lavater tried to give the physiognomy which had not been a science the status of science. Surveying his physiognomy and its reception history, I came to the following conclusions. 1) The so-called objectivity of observation and the transparency of observer is an invention of modernity. 2) Because the physiognomist himself unconsciously privileged as an objective observers and the technology is developed for this purpose, the face of the "other"(Levinas) remains to be hidden.

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