The Phenomenology of Wind and Atmospheres

by Ogawa Tadashi

Edited by Lorenzo Marinucci

Series: Atmospheric Spaces

Imprint: Mimesis International

134 Pages, 6.7 x 9.5 in

Paperback
9788869773112
May 2021
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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.

1. 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 wind
3. Horizon and radiance: a phenomenological reflection
4. The horizon of appearance or things and the chaotic manifold
5. The structure of the visible: a structuralist-phenomenological reflection on Cézanne

Ogawa Tadashi (1945) is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy in Kyoto University’s School of Human and Environmental Studies. An expert of phenomenology and German philosophy, his work represents an original synthesis of Western philosophy and East Asian notions of body and ki. His other research interests include structuralism (from a phenomenological strandpoint), sociology, and the political thought of Machiavelli.

Lorenzo Marinucci is a Canon Research Fellow 2020 at the University of Kyoto. A translator of Japanese poetry and philosophy, his research focuses on Japanese aesthetics and atmospheres. For Mimesis, he has also edited and translated Watsuji Tetsurō’s Vento e terra (2015).