Preface : the need for an aesthetics of human meaning
Introduction : meaning is more than words and deeper than concepts
"Since feeling is first" : emotional dimensions of meaning
The grounding of meaning in the qualities of life
Feeling William James's "but": the aesthetics of reasoning and logic
The origin of meaning in organism-environment coupling : a nonrepresentational view of mind
The corporeal roots of symbolic meaning
The brain's role in meaning
From embodied meaning to abstract thought
Art as an exemplar of meaning-making
Music and the flow of meaning
