2010 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Physiognomy after Lavater : A Mediatheoretical Approach
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19520267
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
ヨーロッパ語系文学
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| Research Institution | Waseda University |
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Principal Investigator |
KAMIO Tatsuyuki 早稲田大学, 教育・総合科学学術院, 教授 (60152849)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2007 – 2010
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| Keywords | 観相学 / 身体表象 / ラーヴァーター / メディア論 / 文化学 |
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| 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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