Atmospheres of Breathing

Contents......Page 6
Acknowledgments......Page 8
Introduction......Page 10
Notes......Page 25
Bibliography......Page 27
I. Philosophical Atmospheres of Breathing......Page 30
I......Page 32
IV......Page 33
A Hermeneutics of Breathing......Page 38
Notes......Page 51
Bibliography......Page 52
Ontology Is Everywhere......Page 54
Ontology of Inspiration and Expiration of Being......Page 56
The Zen Masters and the Breathing Practice of Zazen as the Possible Guides toward a Respiratory Ontology......Page 57
Ku, the Breath and the World of Aerial Emptiness......Page 60
Heidegger on Ku, Emptiness, and Nothing as well as the Forgetting of Air in Heidegger......Page 61
Respiration, the Clearing of Air, and the Essence of Human Existence......Page 64
The Ontological Priority of Merleau-Ponty’s Respiratory Body and the Respiratory Essence of Human Existence......Page 65
The Respiratory Encounter of Zazen and the Merleau-Pontian Ontological Hearkening......Page 66
The Object- and Thing-Related Ontologies and the Atmospheric Ontology of the World of Nothing but Breathing......Page 68
Notes......Page 71
Bibliography......Page 77
Before Breath Is Born: In Search for a New Self-Affection......Page 80
Wound of the World: Freedom and the Love of Breath......Page 85
Transcending Our Finiteness: Toward Sharing of the Divine Breath in Humans......Page 88
Notes......Page 91
Bibliography......Page 95
Introduction......Page 98
The Semantic Field ? (Qi/Ki) in Chinese and Japanese......Page 100
Qi/Ki (?/?) as an Aesthetic Phenomenon in China and Japan......Page 101
Breathing as an Aesthetic Practice......Page 104
Notes......Page 107
Bibliography......Page 108
II. Philosophical Traditions of Breathing......Page 110
Pre-Socratic Presences......Page 112
Aer, Psyche, Pneuma in Anaximenes......Page 116
Psychism and Air in Totality and Infinity......Page 119
The Pneuma of Psychism in Otherwise than Being......Page 122
In Place of a Conclusion......Page 124
Abbreviations of Works by Emmanuel Levinas......Page 125
Bibliography......Page 126
Breath in Ancient Indian Discourse......Page 128
Situating Mindfulness of Breathing in the Pali Buddhist Canon......Page 130
Mindfulness of Breathing and Ethics......Page 134
Abbreviations......Page 137
Notes......Page 138
Bibliography......Page 141
Introduction......Page 144
Summary of Conceptual Concurrences between Classical Yoga Concepts and Transcendental Phenomenology......Page 145
Merleau-Ponty’s Conception of the Lived Body......Page 146
The Lived Body and Yoga......Page 147
Yoga and Reversibility......Page 149
Conclusion......Page 151
Notes......Page 152
Bibliography......Page 153
Introduction......Page 156
Some General Problems of Intercultural Interpretations in Chinese Studies......Page 158
The Binary Relation between Qi and Li and False Interpretations of the Notion Qi......Page 160
The Meaning of Qi on Different Levels......Page 161
Qi as the Breath and the Source of Life......Page 164
Notes......Page 165
Bibliography......Page 168
9. Phenomenology of the Wind and the Possibility of Preventive Medicine: A Discussion of Ki (Wind) Following Kaibara Ekiken (1630–1713)......Page 170
Notes......Page 177
Bibliography......Page 178
III. Voices and Media of Breathing......Page 180
10. “Thoughts, that Breathe”......Page 182
Notes......Page 192
Bibliography......Page 194
Introduction......Page 196
Artaud and Breath......Page 197
Derrida and Artaud: Deconstructing Breath......Page 199
Derrida on Later Artaud......Page 200
An Existential Deconstruction between Artaud and Derrida......Page 202
Notes......Page 204
Bibliography......Page 206
Alpha and Omega......Page 208
Romantic Breath (Kittler)......Page 210
The Natural History of Oxygen......Page 211
Comparative Phenomenology......Page 212
Breathing Technique......Page 214
Technologies of Breathing......Page 216
Air-Quake......Page 217
Bodily Breathing Machines......Page 218
Media of Breathing: A Rough Classification......Page 219
Notes......Page 221
Bibliography......Page 223
IV. Breathful and Breathless Worlds......Page 226
Introduction......Page 228
From Pneuma to Gas in One Short Breath......Page 229
A Biopolitics of Breathing......Page 231
A Thanatopolitics of Gas......Page 233
A Final Puff......Page 236
What Is in a Breath?......Page 237
Notes......Page 238
Bibliography......Page 244
14. Breath as the Hinge of Dis-ease and Healing......Page 248
The Conscious and Unconscious......Page 249
The Voluntary and the Involuntary......Page 251
Physical Dialectics: The “Where” of Breath......Page 253
Receiving and Returning......Page 254
Movement and Stillness......Page 256
Conclusions......Page 257
Notes......Page 258
Bibliography......Page 259
What Is Breathlessness?......Page 262
A Phenomenological Account of Breathlessness......Page 265
Phenomenology in the Clinic......Page 269
Notes......Page 271
Bibliography......Page 273
Breathing as a Relational Enactment......Page 276
Why Breathing Matters......Page 279
Feminist Politics of Breathing......Page 283
Notes......Page 284
Bibliography......Page 286
Postface......Page 290
17. The Commonwealth of Breath......Page 292
Notes......Page 304
Bibliography......Page 305
Contributors......Page 306
Index......Page 312