1. Preface; 2. Introduction; 3. Part I: Systems; 4. The physical origins of purposive systems (by Deacon, Terrance); 5. The extensions of man revisited: From primary to tertiary embodiment (by Sonesson, Goran); 6. Part II: Images; 7. Cognitive semantics and image schemas with embodied forces (by Gardenfors, Peter); 8. Feeling embodied in vision: The imagery of self-perception without mirrors (by Clausberg, Karl); 9. Part III: Form; 10. The body of Susanne K. Langer's Mind (by Richter, Cornelia); 11. Is content embodied form? (by Liedman, Sven-Eric); 12. Part IV: Rhythm; 13. Reading with the body: Sound, rhythm, and music in Gertrude Stein (by Steidele, Angela); 14. Work, rhythm, dance: Prerequisites for a kinaesthetics of media and arts (by Meyer-Kalkus, Reinhart); 15. Part V: Therapy; 16. Body, mind and psychosomatic medicine (by Danzer, Gerhard); 17. What does laughter embody? (by Poole, Brian); 18. Part VI: Catharsis; 19. Laughter, catharsis, and the patristic conception of embodied logos (by Westerkamp, Dirk); 20. The Christian body as a grotesque body (by Sigurdson, Ola); 21. Part VII: Symbolization; 22. Radical imagination and symbolic pregnance: A Castoriadis-Cassirer connection (by Rosengren, Mats); 23. Philosophical anthropology and the embodied cognition paradigm: On the convergence of two research programs (by Krois, John Michael); 24. Notes on contributors; 25. Contributors to "Embodiment in cognition and culture"; 26. Name index; 27. Subject index