1st Edition
Masks and Faces Critical Perspectives Across Disciplines
1. Introduction, Lior Levy and Massimo Leone Part 1. Masks and Faces: Philosophical and Cultural Perspectives 2. Arendt and French Existentialist Takes on Mask. The Risks and Promises of Appearance, Then and Now, Liesbeth Schoonheim; 3. Proust’s One Hundred and One Masks, Thomas Stern; 4. Archeology of the Mask in the History of Cinema, Bruno Surace; 5. Hypertrophies of the Face: Toward a Phenomenology of Masking, Remo Gramigna Part 2. Racialization, Anonymization, Surveillance, and Recognition: Masks and Faces in the History and Philosophy of Science, Media, and Anthropology 6. Tools in Transit: Rudolf Pöch’s Facial Classification and its Multiple Interpretations, Abigail Nieves Delgado; 7. Coding Face, Enumerating Race from Francis Galton’s Numeralised Portraits to Biometric Facial Recognition Technology in the Twenty-First Century, Camille Crichlow; 8. Felina Unmasked: Transparency, Anonymity, and Power, Pollyanna Ruiz; 9. Plaster Facial Casts: Celebration, Categorization, Anonymization in the Nineteenth Century, Lucia Piccioni Part 3. Animals, Avatars, and Selfies: The Future of the Face/Mask 10. Perceiving Masked Faces: Insights from Experimental Psychology, Marco Viola; 11. Masking Animals, Massimo Leone; 12. Empty Masks and Uncanny Appearances: Reflections on Masks in Digital Culture, Yvonne Förster; 13. Face h/and Mask, Lior Levy
Biography
Lior Levy is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Haifa, Israel and Lecturer in the School of Historical and Philosophical Studies at the University of Melbourne, Australia.
Massimo Leone is Full Professor in the Department of Philosophy and Educational Sciences at the University of Turin, Italy.
