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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Why do we shrug? Why do dogs wag their tails? Why do we scowl when angry and pout when sad rather than the other way around? What is the difference between guilt and shame? This would be an extraordinary book even if it had only answered these and scores of similar questions about the emotions in 1872. But Expression also proved that the human mind, not just the body, is a product of evolution. It showed, during the heyday of scientific racism, that the races of mankind are fundamentally similar; anticipating virtually every twentieth-century behavioral science ... Darwin enriched his arguments with hundreds of insightful observations, many with the pathos and humor of great literature, as when he describes the terror of a man being led to his execution or the comical dejection of his dog as soon as it sensed that a walk might end ... This edition has the feel not of a lovingly restored museum piece but of a recent seminal work." -Steven Pinker, Science Darwin's most readable and human book ... It was never republished in his lifetime, even though Darwin made many additions and revisions in the text. Only now have all of Darwin's changes been incorporated into the book, along with a full apparatus of notes and appendices and a number of photographs that never made it into the 1873 edition ... 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 "The Expression of the Emotions predates Freud, and it will still be illuminating human psychology long after Freud's discrediting is complete." --Richard Dawkins "Highly original ... this is scholarship at its best." -Simon Baron-Cohen, Nature "Ekman's edition is no mere reprint plus introduction." -Mark Ridley, Scientific American
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments; List of Illustrations Figures Plates; Preface to the Anniversary Edition by Paul Ekman; Preface to the Third Edition by Paul Ekman; Preface to the Second Edition by Francis Darwin; Introduction to the Third Edition by Paul Ekman; The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals; Introduction to the First Edition; 1. General Principles of Expression; 2. General Principles of Expression -- continued; 3. General Principles of Expression -- continued; 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, Etc. - Helplessness - Patience - Affirmation and Negation; 12. Surprise - Astonishment - Fear - Horror; 13. Self-attention - Shame - Shyness - Modesty: Blushing; 14. Concluding Remarks and Summary; Afterword, by Paul Ekman; APPENDIX I: Charles Darwin's Obituary, by T. H. Huxley; APPENDIX II: Changes to the Text, by Paul Ekman; APPENDIX III: Photography and The Expression of the Emotions, by Phillip Prodger; APPENDIX IV: A Note on the Orientation of the Plates, by Phillip Prodger and Paul Ekman; APPENDIX V: Concordance of Illustrations, by Phillip Prodger; APPENDIX VI: List of Head Words from the Index to the First Edition; NOTES; NOTES TO THE COMMENTARIES; INDEX
