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When this monograph was first published in 1872, there already existed a good deal of thought on facial expression via the study of physiognomy; this work, notes Charles Darwin (1809-82), was full of 'surprising nonsense'. Setting aside the assumption of previous studies that human facial muscles were created specifically for a range of expressions unique to the species, Darwin sets out here to make a systematic study of both human and animal expression. The range of his research is extraordinarily wide: he not only experimented on himself, but observed infants, consulted doctors in psychiatric hospitals and sent out requests to missionaries and travellers for first-hand notes on the expressions of aboriginal peoples. Learned, meticulous and illustrated with an impressive array of drawings, photographs and engravings, Darwin's work stands as an important contribution to the study of human behaviour and its origins.… (més)
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Abraham. Do you bite your thumb at us, sir? Sampson. No, sir, I do not bite my thumb at you sir; but I bite my thumb, sir. Romeo and Juliet.
The Thinker's Library ed., 1934.
Dedicatòria
Primeres paraules
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Sir Charles Bell, so illustrious for his discoveries in physiology, may be said not only to have laid the foundations of the anatomy and philosophy of "Expression" as a branch of science, but to have built up a noble structure.
Introduction.
I will begin by giving the three Principles which appear to me to account for most of the expressions and gestures involuntarily used by man and the lower animals under the influences of various emotions and sensations.
Chapter I, General principles of expression.
This is the most complete edition of The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals ever published.
Preface to the Third Edition.
Darwin wrote the Expression of the Emotions before physiologists had discovered the astonishing facts that the innermost moods of the mind - love, hate, fear, rage, etc. - together with their outermost manifestations, the muscular contractions of the limbs and face, are in great measure dependent upon the functioning, in appropriate spheres of action, of "chemical messengers," or hormones, which are despatched from specific "chemical factories" known as endocrine glands.
Foreword, by Charles M. Beadnell, to the Thinker's Library ed., 1934.
The Theory of Evolution, The Descent of Man, and The Struggle for Existence have become almost household words, and the association of Darwin's name with them, however vague, is irrovocably fixed in the minds of most people.
Foreword, by Maurice Burton, to the Thinker's Library ed., 3rd imp., 1948.
Citacions
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I have endeavoured to show in considerable detail that all the chief expressions exhibited by man are the same throughout the world. This fact is interesting, as it affords a new argument in favour of the several races being descended from a single parent-stock, which must have been almost completely human in structure, and to a large extent in mind, before the period at which the races diverged from each other.
Darreres paraules
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From these several causes, we may conclude that the philosophy of our subject has well deserved the attention which it has already received from several excellent observers, and that it deserves still further attention, especially from any able physiologist.
When this monograph was first published in 1872, there already existed a good deal of thought on facial expression via the study of physiognomy; this work, notes Charles Darwin (1809-82), was full of 'surprising nonsense'. Setting aside the assumption of previous studies that human facial muscles were created specifically for a range of expressions unique to the species, Darwin sets out here to make a systematic study of both human and animal expression. The range of his research is extraordinarily wide: he not only experimented on himself, but observed infants, consulted doctors in psychiatric hospitals and sent out requests to missionaries and travellers for first-hand notes on the expressions of aboriginal peoples. Learned, meticulous and illustrated with an impressive array of drawings, photographs and engravings, Darwin's work stands as an important contribution to the study of human behaviour and its origins.
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