Acknowledgments

Introduction

PART 1: TWO CONTEMPORARY JAPANESE CONCEPTS OF THE BODY: ICHIKAWA HIROSHI AND YUASA YASUO

1. Ichikawa's View of the Body

Introduction
The Subject-Body
The Body-Space
The Object-Body

2. Ichikawa's Concept of the Body Qua Structure

Structure as Functioning
The Orientational Structure
The Intentional Structure
Mineness of the Body
Concluding Remarks

3. Yuasa's Body Scheme

Introduction
Yuasa's Body-Scheme
The External Sensory-Motor Circuit
The Circuit of Coenesthesis
The Emotion-Instinct Circuit
The Summary of the Three Circuits
The Circuit of Unconcious Quasi-Body
Concluding Remarks

PART 2: A MEDIEVAL JAPANESE CONCEPT OF THE BODY: DOGEN KIGEN

4. Buddhism and Dogen's Concept of the Body

Introduction
Traditional Buddhist Concept of the Body
Human Body: The Basis For All That Appears
Dogen's Concept of Generation-Extinction
Generation-Extinction of an "I"
Conditions for Transition from "I" to "Who"

5. Dogen and the Body in Meditation

Introduction
Preparation
Attitude
The Goal of "Just Sitting"
An Analysis of "Just Sitting"
Samadhic Awareness
Oneness of the Body-Mind
Zen's Theory and Practice

6. Dogen and the Body in Transformation

Introduction
Transformation of Synthetic Function
Transformation of Affectivity
Felt Inter-Resonance
The Somatic Act

7. Dogen and the Body in Action

Introduction
Dogen's Identification of Mind with Objects
A True Human Body
Concluding Remarks

PART 3: A THEORY OF ATTUNEMENT

8. Preliminaries and a Theory of Attunement

Introduction
Personal Body: A Contingent Being
Engagement: Fundamental Modality of the Personal Body
Engagement as the Body's Attunement

9. A Sketch of a General Theory of Attunement

The Formal Conditions of Attunement
The Experimental Momentum of Attunement
The Somatic Field
Affectivity: Feeling-Judgement
Sedimentation

10. A Stratification of Engagement

Introduction
Tensionality
De-Tensionality
Non-Tensionality
Concluding Remarks

Notes

Glossary for Japanese Terms

Bibliography

Index