In his discussion of the concept of culture, Clifford Geertz, the famous anthropologist, refers to Susanne Langer's "Grande Idée"—certain ideas that burst upon the intellectual landscape with a tremendous force, becoming the conceptual center-point around which a comprehensive system of analysis can be built, promising to resolve many fundamental problems at once (Geertz, 1973, p. 3). The concept of embodiment, I believe, is one such Grande Idée.