Action, Embodied Mind, and Life World

Introduction Interpreting Reality Presupposes an Understanding of Emotion

1. 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
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Index