Atmospheres of breathing /
Attempts to think anew about philosophical questions from the perspective of breath and breathing. As a physiological or biological matter, breath is mostly considered to be mechanical and thoughtless. By expanding on the insights of many religions and therapeutic practices, which emphasize the cult...
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Albany, NY :
SUNY Press,
[2018]
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| Serier: | Online access: NCBI NCBI Bookshelf.
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Indholdsfortegnelse:
- Introduction
- I. Philosophical atmospheres of breathing. Logos and psyche : a hermeneutics of breathing
- The possibility of a new respiratory ontology
- Breath as a way of self-affection : on new topologies of transcendence and self-transcendence
- Aesthetics of breathing : some reflections
- II. Philosophical traditions of breathing. The breathing of the air : pre-socratic echoes in Levinas
- Mindfulness of breathing in early Buddhism
- Inspiration and expiration : yoga practice through Merleau-Ponty's phenomenology of the body
- The concept of Qi in Chinese philosophy : a vital force of cosmic and human breath
- Phenomenology of the wind and the possibility of preventive medicine : a discussion of Ki (wind) following Kaibara Ekiken (1630-1713)
- III. Voices and media of breathing. "Thoughts that breathe"
- Theater of breath : an Artaud-Derrida existential conflict
- The media of breathing
- IV. Breathful and breathless worlds. The politics of breathing : knowledge on air and respiration
- Breath as the hinge of dis-ease and healing
- Invisible suffering : the experience of breathlessness
- Feminist politics of breathing
- Postface. The commonwealth of breath.