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Article: 'Der schein ist gegen sie': physiognomy and honour in Schiller's Der Verbrecher aus verlorener Ehre.(Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller )
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- The Modern Language Review
- Article date:
- July 1, 2006
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In Der Verbrecher aus verlorener Ehre, Schiller espouses an understanding of honour as an inner attribute and reveals the dangers of denying honour to individuals on the basis of external, physical attributes. At the same time, Schiller's text attests to his interest in physiognomics, a theory grounded in a postulated correspondence between the moral constitution of an individual and observable physical traits. While rejecting the notion that the body is 'die sichtbar gemachte Seele', Schiller accepts that physiognomics may have a part to play in the psychological evaluation of individuals.
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