The close relationship between motion (bodily movement) and emotion (feelings) is not an etymological coincidence. While moving ourselves, we move others; in observing others move - we are moved ourselves. This book elaborates a dynamical view of emotion, along with an affect-laden view of motion.

1. Introduction; 2. Prologue: Bodily motion, emotion and mind science (by Zlatev, Jordan); 3. Part I. Consciousness; 4. Fundamental and inherently interrelated aspects of animation (by Sheets-Johnstone, Maxine); 5. Could moving ourselves be the link between emotion and consciousness? (by Ellis, Ralph D.); 6. Visual perception and self-movement: Another look (by Overgaard, Soren); 7. Emotion regulation through the ages (by Shanker, Stuart G.); 8. Moving others matters (by Reddy, Vasudevi); 9. Part II. Intersubjectivity; 10. Neurons, neonates and narrative: From empathic resonance to empathic understanding (by Gallagher, Shaun); 11. Intersubjectivity in the lifeworld: Meaning, cognition, and affect (by Fultner, Barbara); 12. Primates, motion and emotion: To what extent nonhuman primates are intersubjective and why (by Racine, Timothy P.); 13. Reaching, requesting and reflecting: From interpersonal engagement to thinking (by Carpendale, Jeremy I.M.); 14. Intuitive meaning: Supporting impulses for interpersonal life in the sociosphere of human knowledge, practice and language (by Frank, Bodo); 15. Relational emotions in semiotic and linguistic development: Towards an intersubjective theory of language learning and language therapy (by Ludtke, Ulrike M.); 16. Part III. Language; 17. The relevance of emotion for language and linguistics (by Foolen, Ad); 18. From pre-symbolic gestures to language: Multisensory early intervention in deaf children (by Gunther, Klaus-B.); 19. The challenge of complexity: Body, mind and language in interaction (by Weigand, Edda); 20. (E)motion in the XVIIth century: A closer look at the changing semantics of the French verbs emouvoir and mouvoir (by Bloem, Annelies); 21. Metaphor and subjective experience: A study of motion-emotion metaphors in English, Swedish, Bulgarian, and Thai (by Zlatev, Jordan); 22. Epilogue: Natural sources of meaning in human sympathetic vitality (by Trevarthen, Colwyn); 23. Index