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

"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

• 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

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

"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

• 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

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

"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

• 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