The meaning of the body: aesthetics of human understanding

Preface : the need for an aesthetics of human meaning

Introduction : meaning is more than words and deeper than concepts

The movement of life

Big babies

"Since feeling is first" : emotional dimensions of meaning

The grounding of meaning in the qualities of life

Feeling William James's "but": the aesthetics of reasoning and logic

The origin of meaning in organism-environment coupling : a nonrepresentational view of mind

The corporeal roots of symbolic meaning

The brain's role in meaning

From embodied meaning to abstract thought

Art as an exemplar of meaning-making

Music and the flow of meaning

The meaning of the body.