Ki (気), Fühlen und Empfinden

What does feeling mean? Does it differ depending on the linguistic cultures in which one grows up, and if so, to what extent? This book explores the different forms of sensation and feeling formation that can be observed within the word field ki (気). Ki is often translated into German with words such as air, breath, atmosphere, life force or energy.
Inspired by the linguistic phenomenology of J. L. Austin and based on philosophical approaches by Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Hermann Schmitz, Gernot Böhme and Rolf Elberfeld, this study establishes connections between everyday word use and modes of feeling or sensation and allows the basic outlines of a critical aesthetic of articulating feeling to emerge.