Embodiment in Evolution and Culture

Gregor Etzelmüller/Christian Tewes: Introduction

1. Philosophical Concepts and Perspectives of Embodiment
Christian Tewes: Introduction - Mog Stapleton: Leaky Levels and the Case for Proper Embodiment - Christian Tewes: Embodied Habitual Memory Formation: Enacted or Extended? - Karim Zahidi/Erik Myin: Radically Enactive Numerical Cognition - Christian Spahn: Beyond Dualism? The Implications of Evolutionary Theory for an Anthropological Determination of Human Being

2. The Embodied Evolution of Symbolic Competence
Magnus Schlette: Introduction - Thomas Fuchs: The Embodied Development of Language - Terrence Deacon: On Human (Symbolic) Nature: How the Word Became Flesh - Jordan Zlatev: Preconditions in Human Embodiment for the Evolution of Symbolic Communication - Matthias Jung: Stages of Embodied Articulation

3. Embodiment as a Bridging Concept for Evolutionary and Historical Anthropology
Alexander Massmann: Introduction - Gregor Etzelmüller: The Lived Body as the Tipping Point Between an Evolutionary and a Historical Anthropology - Eve-Marie Engels: The Roots of Human Morals and Culture in Pre-Human Sympathy. Charles Darwin's Natural and Cultural History of Morals - Christoph Wulf: The Creation of Body Knowledge in Mimetic Processes - Annette Weissenrieder: "It Proceeded from the Entrance of a Demon into the Man". Epileptic Seizures in Ancient Medical Texts and the New Testament

4. The Mutual Intertwinement of Nature and Culture
Miriam Haidle: Introduction - Lambros Malafouris: On Human Becoming and Incompleteness: A Material Engagement Approach to the Study of Embodiment in Evolution and Culture - Duilio Garofoli: Metaplasticit- ies: Material Engagement Meets Mutational Enhancement - Shaun Gallagher/Tailer G. Ransom: Artifacting Minds: Material Engagement Theory and Joint Action - Wolfgang Welsch: Bodily Changes during the Protocultural Period and Their Ongoing Impact on Culture