Research Catalog

Title

Martial arts and philosophy : beating and nothingness / edited by Graham Priest and Damon Young.

Publication

Chicago : Open Court, c2010.

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Additional Authors

• Priest, Graham.
• Young, Damon.

Description

xiii, 238 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Series Statement

Popular culture and philosophy ; v. 53

Uniform Title

Popular culture and philosophy ; v. 53.

Subject

• Martial arts > Philosophy
• Martial arts

Note

• Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Enter the Dragon : traditional Asian martial arts -- 1. Pleased to beat you / Damon Young -- 2. An interview with Bodhidharma / Graham Priest -- 3. Don't think! Just act! / Bronwyn Finnigan and Koji Tanaka -- 4. Plato and the Shaolin monks square off / Joseph J. Lynch -- 5. Now who's the master? / Richard Schubert -- The Karate Kid : character and education -- 6. An enemy lying in ambush / Jack Fuller -- 7. Armbarring the common good / Sasha Cooper and Travis Taylor -- 8. Sparring with emptiness / Kevin Krein -- 9. Grrrl in a Gi / Patricia Petersen -- 10. Home is where the fight is / Scott Beattie -- The perfect weapon : ethic and value -- 11. Iaido, Aikido, and the other / Tamara Kohn -- 12. Epistemic viciousness in the martial arts / Gillian Russell -- 13. Seeing your own shadow / John Haffner and Jason Vogel -- 14. Budo for Buddhists / Chris Mortensen -- 15. The eye of the beholder / Judy D. Saltzman -- Excalibur : Western martial arts -- 16. Sir Aristotle and the code of chivalry / Scott Farrell -- 17. The glove of wisdom / Gordon Marino -- 18. Fencing is the loneliest martial art / Nicolas Michaud -- 19. Why practice an unmartial martial art? / Christopher Lawrence -- 20. What makes fencing unique? / Jeremy Moss.

ISBN

• 9780812696844 (trade paper : alk. paper)
• 0812696840 (trade paper : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2010027665

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library