Ralph D. Ellis is Professor of Philosophy at Clark Atlanta University.

• Introduction Interpreting Reality Presupposes an Understanding of Emotion1. The Subterranean Role of Enactive Meaning: "PANIC," "SEEKING," and the Action Trajectories of Valuation 2. Focusing, Enactivity, and the Opacity of Directionality 3. We're Not in Behaviorism Anymore: Panksepp and Damasio on the Enactive Structure of Motivation 4. The Extended Value System and the Place of Instrumentality 5. Hannah Arendt and the Curious Nihilism of Grand-Scheme Value Systems 6. The Symbolic Dimension: Gendlin's Embodied Symbolization and the Limits of the Static Image 7. Total Failure of Inspiration: Lessons from the Sudden Murderer and the Family Annihilator 8. Lessons from Alexithymia: The Role of Phenomenological Reflection in Understanding Enactive Motivation 9. The Hot-Cold Meter: Unlocking Internal Conflict by Updating Hermeneutical Worldviews 10. A. J. Ayer's Stepchildren: Relativism, Truth, and the Crisis of Postmodernity 11. The Hermeneutic Circle: A Story of Internal Conflict Conclusions The Embodied Mind and the "That for the Sake of Which" Notes References Index

"This book is the result of combining, in a remarkable and quite concrete way, three different trends or methodological resources: emotion research, enactivism, and focusing I cannot even try to do justice to the book in all its complexity and richness." — Antonio Zirión Quijano, Journal of Phenomenological Psychology"This is a further step in the development of a new understanding of meaning, not derived from language and concepts, but from the actual process of living. This is of more than academic interest: it is at the root of many of today's most pressing problems. The discussions of the authoritarian personality, enactivism, and denials of intrinsic meaning are particularly interesting." — Rob Parker, the International Focusing Institute