The Phenomenology of Wind and Atmospheres

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Tadashi Ogawa brings together the ancient East Asian idea of ki (気) and standpoints of European philosophy. Wind, atmosphere and breathing are formless, invisible and impermanent – yet also constantly move between things, animating them in their interactions with our subjectivities. In this volume, these elements are brought back from their forgotten status in European philosophy and placed as central elements in a new, challenging philosophical reflection, weaving together aspects from both East and West.Table of Contents1. Phenomenolgy of Wind and Atmosphere - an attempt at a "phenomenology of wind"2. The appearance of things and "half-things": for a phenomenology of night and wind3. Horizon and a phenomenological reflection4. The horizon of appearance or things and the chaotic manifold5. The structure of the a structuralist-phenomenological reflection on Cézanne