Notes on contributors

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Preface xi
4. Introduction xiii
5. Part I: Systems
6. The physical origins of purposive systems 3
7. The extensions of man revisited: From primary to tertiary embodiment 27
8. Part II: Images
9. Cognitive semantics and image schemas with embodied forces 57
10. Feeling embodied in vision: The imagery of self-perception without mirrors 77
11. Part III: Form
12. The body of Susanne K. Langer's Mind 107
13. Is content embodied form? 127
14. Part IV: Rhythm
15. Reading with the body: Sound, rhythm, and music in Gertrude Stein 143
16. Work, rhythm, dance: Prerequisites for a kinaesthetics of media and arts 165
17. Part V: Therapy
18. Body, mind and psychosomatic medicine 185
19. What does laughter embody? 195
20. Part VI: Catharsis
21. Laughter, catharsis, and the patristic conception of embodied logos 221
22. The Christian body as a grotesque body 243
23. Part VII: Symbolization
24. Radical imagination and symbolic pregnance: A Castoriadis-Cassirer connection 261
25. Philosophical anthropology and the embodied cognition paradigm: On the convergence of two research programs 273
26. Notes on contributors 291
27. Contributors to "Embodiment in cognition and culture" 293
28. Name index 297
29. Subject index 301