After Darwin: Animals, Emotions, and the Mind
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After Darwin: Animals, Emotions, and the Mind.
Edited by Angelique Richardson
Rodopi Amsterdam/New York, NY 2013. XVI, 369 pp. (Clio
Medica 93)
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'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
Acknowledgements
Notes on Contributors
List of Illustrations
Angelique Richardson: Introduction: Darwin and
Interdisciplinarity: A
Historical Perspective
Jane Spencer: 'Love and Hatred are Common to the Whole
Sensitive
Creation': Animal Feeling in the Century before Darwin
Angelique Richardson: 'The Book of The Season': The
Conception and
Reception of Darwin's Expression
Gillian Beer: The Backbone Shiver: Darwin and the Arts
Paul White: Becoming an Animal: Darwin and the Evolution
of Sympathy
Angelique Richardson: George Eliot, G.H. Lewes, and
Darwin: Animals,
Emotions, and Morals
David Amigoni: Between Medicine and Evolutionary Theory:
Sympathy and
Other Emotional Investments in Life Writings by and about
Charles Darwin
Monika Pietrzak-Franger: From Entangled Vision to Ethical
Engagement:
Darwin, Affect, and Contemporary Exhibition Projects
L.S. Jacyna: Reckoning with the Emotions: Neurological
Responses to the
Theory of Evolution, 1870-1930
Rhodri Hayward: Darwin's Changing Expression and the
Making of the
Modern State
Harriet Ritvo: Calling the Wild: Selection, Domestication,
and Species
Michael Lewis: The Development of Emotional Life
Marc Bekoff: Afterword: The Emotional and Moral Lives of
Animals: What
Darwin Would Have Said
Index