Phänomenologie der Kata-Übung

This book is the first to systematically explore the kata practice of the Japanese pathways arts as a philosophical discipline. Drawing on Buddhist sources, it develops a conception of practice that takes bodily postures and movement patterns not only as objects, but also as methods of inquiry. Through engagement with Zen meditation, breathing practice, tea ceremony, Nō theatre, and martial arts, the book articulates a methodological approach that combines translation and theorization, intercultural philosophy and phenomenology, as well as ethics and aesthetics. In micro-phenomenological descriptions of postural patterns, embodied reflection is developed as an innovative mode of philosophical research.