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ISBN-13: | 9780761818137 |
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Publisher: | University Press of America |
Publication date: | 11/15/2000 |
Pages: | 400 |
Product dimensions: | 6.06(w) x 9.28(h) x 1.09(d) |
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Table of Contents
Chapter 1 Foreward; Acknowledgements; Photograph Descriptions and Credits; Preface Chapter 2 A Concept of Space: People Without Faces Chapter 3 The "Minor Hemisphere" Chapter 4 Mute Faces: Faces Without Expression Chapter 5 The Greeks and Their Progeny Chapter 6 Faces Without Description Chapter 7 The Evolving Face: Emotion versus Feeling Chapter 8 Facial Expression and "The Ghost of Lamarck" Chapter 9 Aesthetics of the Third Dimension Chapter 10 The Language of the Face: Empathy and Human Sacrifice Chapter 11 Courtly Love and the Image of Narcissus Chapter 12 Notes; Author Index; Subject Index; About the AuthorWhat People are Saying About This
What this book should make the reader do it, as it did me, is
reevaluate all those philosophical and sociological theses (Hegel, Marx,
Spengler, Scheler, Benjamin, Adorno, Foucault) in a biological light. The future
is biological, not socio-philosophical.
Dr. John Cutting author of The Right
Cerebral Hemisphere and Psychiatric Disorders; Principals of Psycho pathology,
and Psycho pathology and Modern Philosophy.
In this clearly written book Brener draws on diverse sources to provide
new insights, fascinating and challenging ideas about the face.
Dr. Paul Ekman author of The Face of Man: Expressions of Universal Emotions in a New Guinea
Village, and Telling Lies: Clues ot deceit in the market place, politics and
marriage.
I found Brener's book absorbing. It reads like a good detective story
with clues from neuropsychology, anthropology, art and literature. The
synthesis of these clues results in a breakthrough in understanding human
development in historical times. Brener attributes much of this development to
evolution of the right cerebral hemisphere and his thesis may thus give us at
least an intriguing glimpse into our unknowable future.
Nikolai Nkiolaenko,
author of Brain Pictures
This book reveals a new understanding of the evolution of human
perception of facial expressions. It documents the overwhelming evidence for a
rapid rate of human behavioral evolution difficult to explain by conventional
genetic theories of evolution (the neo-Darwinian view-point) and identifies some
of the more recently uncovered genetic mechanisms which might account for this
evolution.
Dr. Edward J. Steele author of Somatic Selection and Adaptive
Evolution and Lamarck's Signature