After Darwin : animals, emotions, and the mind / edited by Angelique Richardson ; cover illustration, Robert Braithwaite Martineau ; David Amigoni [and ten others], contributors.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Richardson

Contributor:

Richardson, Angelique.

Martineau, Robert Braithwaite.

Amigoni, David.

Series:

Clio medica (Amsterdam, Netherlands) ; 93.

Clio medica ; 93

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882.

Darwin, Charles.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (384 pages) : illustrations.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Brill 2013

Amsterdam, Netherlands ; New York : Rodopi, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

‘What is emotion?’ pondered the young Charles Darwin in his notebooks. How were the emotions to be placed in an evolutionary framework? And what light might they shed on human-animal continuities? These were among the questions Darwin explored in his research, assisted both by an acute sense of observation and an extraordinary capacity for fellow feeling, not only with humans but with all animal life. After Darwin: Animals, Emotions, and the Mind explores questions of mind, emotion and the moral sense which Darwin opened up through his research on the physical expression of emotions and the human–animal relation. It also examines the extent to which Darwin’s ideas were taken up by Victorian writers and popular culture, from George Eliot to the Daily News . Bringing together scholars from biology, literature, history, psychology, psychiatry and paediatrics, the volume provides an invaluable reassessment of Darwin’s contribution to a new understanding of the moral sense and emotional life, and considers the urgent scientific and ethical implications of his ideas today.

Contents:

Preliminary material / Editors After Darwin: Animals, Emotions, and the Mind

Introduction / Angelique Richardson

‘Love and Hatred are Common to the Whole Sensitive Creation’: Animal Feeling in the Century before Darwin1 / Jane Spencer

‘The Book of the Season’: The Conception and Reception of Darwin’s Expression / Angelique Richardson

The Backbone Shiver: Darwin and the Arts / Gillian Beer

Becoming an Animal: Darwin and the Evolution of Sympathy / Paul White

George Eliot, G.H. Lewes, and Darwin: Animals, Emotions, and Morals / Angelique Richardson

Between Medicine and Evolutionary Theory: Sympathy and Other Emotional Investments in Life Writings by and about Charles Darwin / David Amigoni

From Entangled Vision to Ethical Engagement: Darwin, Affect, and Contemporary Exhibition Projects / Monika Pietrzak-Franger

Reckoning with the Emotions: Neurological Responses to the Theory of Evolution, 1870–1930 / L.S. Jacyna

Darwin’s Changing Expression and the Making of the Modern State / Rhodri Hayward

Calling the Wild: Selection, Domestication, and Species / Harriet Ritvo

The Development of Emotional Life / Michael Lewis

The Emotional and Moral Lives of Animals: What Darwin Would Have Said / Marc Bekoff

Index / Editors After Darwin Animals, Emotions, and the Mind.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed January 27, 2014).

ISBN:

94-012-0998-7

OCLC:

900747521

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789401209984 DOI