François Dagognet, The Half-Error of Physiognomy

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François Dagognet, The Half-Error of Physiognomy. Trans. Nils F. Schott. Interface Critique 5 (2025): 235–295.

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François Dagognet (1924–2015) was a French philosopher, physician, and historian of science, and the author of more than seventy books. A student of Georges Canguilhem, he wrote extensively on the philosophy of the body. His book Faces, Surfaces, Interfaces was first published in 1982 by Librairie philosophique J. Vrin.

Nils F. Schott teaches philosophy in the Euro-American Program of the Collège universitaire de SciencesPo. With Alexandre Lefebvre, he is the co-editor of three books: Henri Bergson’s lectures on Freedom at the Collège de France (Bloomsbury, 2024); a collection of essays, Interpreting Bergson: Critical Essays (Cambridge UP, 2019); and a translation of Vladimir Jankélévitch’s Henri Bergson (Duke UP, 2015). With Hent de Vries, he edited Love and Forgiveness for a More Just World (Columbia UP, 2015). He is also a widely published translator of academic literature, including some twenty books.