About Face

By: Jonathan Cole

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Paperback | 18 February 1999

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What is special about the face, and what happens when neurological conditions make expression of comprehension of the face unavailable? Through a mix of science, autobiography, case studies, and speculation, Jonathan Cole shows the importance not only of facial expressions for communication among individuals but also of facial embodiment for our sense of self. He presents, in his words, "a natural history of the face and an unnatural history of those who live without it". Drawing on work in neurology, human development, anthropology, philosophy, and the arts, the book moves from the biological evolution of the face, through the mechanics of expressionism and perception, to research on the importance of the face in the development of emotion and communication. The heart of the book, though, lies in the experience of people with facial losses of various kinds. The case studies are of blind, autistic, and neurologically impaired persons; the most extreme case involves Mobius syndrome, in which some individuals are born with a total inability to move their muscles and hence to make facial expressions. Cole suggests that it is only by studying such personal narratives of loss that we can understand facial function and something of what all our faces reflect. As the author advances his natural history and theory of the face, he reveals something of our nature and how it is defined, in part, by the face.

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About Face...is, I believe, a truly important book, which could do much to counteract the extremes of sociobiological reductionism. -- John Cornwell * Sunday Times (UK) *

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Acknowledgments
The Pre-face: "Tell, Please"
Mary
Opening the Seam
"Tell, Please"
Looking through the Window
Residing in Voices
"Not Like a Hand"
A Politician Who Finds It Difficult to Smile
We Do Not Share the Same World
Floods of Faces
Sweating Blood
Bone to Brain
Fish Face
Darwin's Nose
The Anatomy of a Smile
The Vanity of Astronauts
Bell's Nerve
Laughter and Sorrow
Cars and Faces
Chimpanzees' Dreams
From Aristotle to Darwin
Universal Faces
Culture and Colors
Smiling Happy People?
Decoding Primate Faces
Howlett's Zoo, Kent
Monkey World, Dorset
The Tavistock Institute, London
Born Independent
Theory of Mind
Feelings of Soul
The Color of Hair
Like a Ball Off a Wall
The Spectator
Imitation, Self, and Others
Child's Play
In the Playground
The Reflection of Ourselves
James
One Big Family
George
Dull and Boring?
Oliver
Mrs. Doubtfire
Coming Alive--The Video
Grumpy
Changing Faces
Seven Years of Trial and Error
Seeing the Enemy
Face Odyssey
Maps of Feelings
Hearing Emotions, Thinking Emotions
Controlling Emotions
Measuring Skulls
No Different Today
William James and James
Phantom Emotions
Face Value
Theory of Mind?
Seeing Consciousness
The Divine Fantasy
Notes
Index
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