Anatomy of the Passions

Author:   François Delaporte ,  Susan Emanuel ,  Todd Meyers ,  Todd Meyers
Publisher:   Stanford University Press
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9780804758512


Pages:   224
Publication Date:   11 March 2008
Format:   Paperback
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Anatomy of the Passions


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The study of facial expression and its musculature undertaken by Guillaume-Benjamin Duchenne de Boulogne in 1862, an attempt to secure biological meaning in the natural language of the emotions, resulted in the pioneering Mechanisme du physiognomie humaine. Duchenne, who used photography to document his experiments, inspired Charles Darwin's Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals (1872) and had a significant influence on artists (his teachings were incorporated into the curriculum of the Ecole Normale Superieur des Beaux Arts). Through Duchenne, Francois Delaporte provides a remarkable philosophical and historical examination of expressive physiology during the mid-nineteenth century and considers the science of emotion as a means of revealing inner life upon the surface of the face. The central concern of Anatomy of the Passions is how techniques of studying facial musculature became a point of contact between existing and novel understandings of the body's expressive anatomy. Delaporte shows that Duchenne entirely reordered the knowledge and limits of expressive physiology in science and art. The face became a site where the signs of inner life are silently revealed, not yet betrayed by speech, but brought forth by reflexive physiology or by technical manipulation.

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Author:   François Delaporte ,  Susan Emanuel ,  Todd Meyers ,  Todd Meyers
Publisher:   Stanford University Press
Imprint:   Stanford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.20cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.308kg
ISBN:  

9780804758512


ISBN 10:   0804758514
Pages:   224
Publication Date:   11 March 2008
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Introduction I i. Myology 7 An Anatomy Adrift o--An Electric Scalpel r6 Dissection of the Living 24 2. Machinery 32 The Limits ofPathognomny35-- king Pictures 48 Optical Illusions 56-The Eimegence of Variables p5 Pedagogy of the Gaze &6 3. Significations 67 The Language oqfassions 7o-Psychology and Physiology 79 Biolog, and Anthi; pology 88 4. Aesthetics 102 The Conference ofLe Brun ios-Rendering the Passions rI4 Expressive Heads 127--The Frenzy of Images _u7

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This remarkable book is exemplary of what the history of science can do for cultural and social history. - Bertand Taithe, University of Manchester


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François Delaporte is Professor of Philosophy at Université de Picardie Jules-Verne in Amiens, France. His publications include Nature's Second Kingdom (1982), The History of Yellow Fever (1991), and Disease and Civilization (1986).

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