The body is booming. We are confronted with an excess of it daily, as an object of exhibition, availability or seduction. It was only a question of time until a corporeal (or body) turn was also proclaimed in the game of alternating turns in the sciences and humanities. In this process, the object of the study in the turn mentioned is often reduced to what in German is called the "physical body" (Korper): a physical substrate which can be described as a thing among things. Contrary to this terminological abbreviation, the concept of the "lived body" (Leib) has at the latest since Edmund Husserl represented a precise theoretical intervention in the scientific and philosophical discussion surrounding the physical body and corporeality: The objectively observed body, which we have, is compared to the body of embodiment, which is what we are. The authors of the articles in this volume deal with this "lived body," its history, its variations and its promise.