Examines Hegels insights regarding the complexity and significance of embodiment in human life identity and experience.Meaning and Embodiment provides a detailed study of Hegels anthropology to examine the place of corporeity or embodiment in human life identity and experience. In Hegels view to be human means in part to produce ones own spiritual embodiment in culture and habits. Whereas for animals nature only has meaning relative to biological drives humans experience meaning in a way that transcends these limits and which allows for aesthetic appreciation of beauty and sublimity nihilistic feelings of meaninglessness and the complex and different systems of symbolic speech and action characterizing language and culture.