The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals

by Charles Darwin, Francis Darwin (Editor)

Overview

This second edition of The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals was edited by his son Francis Darwin and published in 1890. As Sir Francis notes in his brief preface, because the first edition did not sell out in Charles Darwin's lifetime, 'he had no opportunity of publishing the material collected with a view to a second edition.' This material, in the form of 'a mass of letters, extracts from and references to books' was utilised in the second edition, as were Darwin's pencilled corrections in his own volume of the first. The book is a study of the muscular movements of the face (both human and animal) triggered by the emotions being felt - a 'physical' response to a 'mental' sensation. Darwin's detailed analysis of what actually happens to a body in a state of fear, or joy, or anger is illustrated by photographic images.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781108004831
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	07/20/2009
Series:	Cambridge Library Collection - Darwin, Evolution and Genetics
Edition description:	2nd Revised ed.
Pages:	424
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.94(d)

About the Author

Paul Ekman is Professor of Psychology at the University of California at San Francisco. He is the editor of Darwin and Facial Expression and The Nature of Emotion, and author of Telling Lies: Clues to Deceit in the Marketplace, Politics, and Marriage. He lives in San Francisco.

Date of Birth:

February 12, 1809

Date of Death:

April 19, 1882

Place of Birth:

Shrewsbury, England

Place of Death:

London, England

Education:

B.A. in Theology, Christ¿s College, Cambridge University, 1831

Table of Contents

Preface by Konrad Lorenz
Introduction
1. General Principles of Expression
2. General Principles of Expression (continued)
3. General Principles of Expression (concluded)
4. Means of Expression in Animals
5. Special Expressions of Animals
6. Special Expressions of Man: Suffering and Weeping
7. Low Spirits, Anxiety, Grief, Dejection, Despair
8. Joy, High Spirits, Love, Tender Feelings, Devotion
9. Reflection, Meditation, Ill-Temper, Sulkiness, Determination
10. Hatred and Anger
11. Disdain, Contempt, Disgust, Guilt, Pride, Helplessness, Patience, Affirmation and Negation
12. Surprise, Astonishment, Fear, Horror
13. Self-Attention, Shame, Shyness, Modesty: Blushing
14. Concluding Remarks and Summary

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

" He who admits, on general grounds, that the structure and habits of all animals have been gradually evolved will look at the whole subject of Expression in a new and interesting light."
-Charles Darwin

Editorial Reviews

Ekman (psychology, UC San Francisco) presents a work that was well known during Darwin's lifetime, providing notes throughout, as well as an introduction, afterword, and appendices. Darwin's text itself goes into great detail describing facial and bodily expressions corresponding to dozens of emotions in humans, dogs, horses, apes, and other animals. Photographs, drawings and woodcuts illustrate the expressions described. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Booknews

Darwin's most readable and human book, full of enchanting observations, provocative theories, and remarkable photographs....This new comprehensive edition of "Expression" will introduce a new generation of readers to Darwin's masterpiece, undiminished and intensely relevant even 125 years after publication. -- Oliver Sacks

Oliver Sacks

"Scholarship at its best.... The strength of Darwin's writing still shines through, as well as hes drive to explain the form of each emotional expression.... this new book will be required reading for Darwin scholars of emotion."—Nature

"The appearance of this new edition of Darwin's extraordinary book is a major event in the human sciences."—Steven Pinker

"Darwin's most readable and human book, full of enchanting observations, provocative theories, and remarkable photographs.... This new comprehensive edition of Expression will introduce a new generation of readers to Darwin's masterpiece, undiminished and intensely relevant even 125 years after publication."—Oliver Sacks

"Over many years, while engaged on other work, Darwin was researching the Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals, his most extraordinary and approachable book, rich in observed detailed and brilliant speculation, beautifully illustrated—one of the first scientific books to use photographs, including some of his own baby pouting and laughing—and now available in a third edition, prepared and annotated by the great American psychologist of the emotions, Paul Ekman... Darwin's book was out of favour for a long time after his death. The climate of opinion has changed now, and Ekman's superb edition is a major published event and has been enthusiastically welcomed."—From a lecture, entitled Science and Human Nature, given at Oxford University by Ian McEwan

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