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This book studies the phenomenological ontology of breathing. It investigates breathing and air as a question of phenomenological philosophy and looks at phenomenological questions concerning respiratory methodology, ontological experience of respiration, respiratory spirituality and respiratory embodiment.
List of contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
1 The Basic Barbaric Conviction of We Breathe Air and the Possibility of a New Respiratory Principle of Philosophy
2 The Merleau-Pontian First Principle of Philosophy “There Is the World”
3 Merleau-Ponty’s Return to “Some Immense Exterior Lung” and the Possibility of the Primacy of Breathing
4 The Ontological Principle “There Is Being” as the Primacy of Being
5 The New Ontologico-Respiratory Principle “There is Really and Truly Inspiration and Expiration of Being”
6 The New Ontological Principle of Yawning Abyss of Air
7 The Method of Phenomenologico-Ontological Respiratory Philosophy
8 The Chasmological Epoché of the Respiratory Reduction
Conclusions
Bibliography
About the author
Petri Berndtson (PhD) is research associate of the Institute for Philosophical Studies at the Science and Research Centre Koper, Slovenia, and the coeditor (with Lenart Škof) of Atmospheres of Breathing.
Summary
This book studies the phenomenological ontology of breathing. It investigates breathing and air as a question of phenomenological philosophy and looks at phenomenological questions concerning respiratory methodology, ontological experience of respiration, respiratory spirituality and respiratory embodiment.
