Introduction -- Disembodiment -- The Clever Body -- 1. Autonomy -- Dynamic Striving -- The Carrying Body -- Endogenous Capabilities -- 2. Sensibility -- The Pathic Aspect -- Delicacy of the Body -- Wider Spectrum of the Senses -- Style and Atmosphere -- 3. Spontaneity -- The Forming Body -- The Capacity for Inventing -- Improvisation -- Spontaneous Morality -- 4. Imitation -- The Mimetic Body -- Conversation -- The Involuntary in Imitation -- Awareness of the Body -- Sympathetic Communication -- 5. Rhythm -- Interaction Rhythm -- Aesthetic Experience of Movement -- Rhythmically Organized Movement -- Dance -- Surrender to the Body -- 6. Memory -- The Body as a Temporal Form -- Skill and Habit -- Inventive Style -- The Gift of Automatism -- 7. Imagination -- Motor Imagination -- Feeling and Inverse Imagination -- Creative Hands
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