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Synopsis
Tai Chi is often presented as exercise, martial art, meditation, or health practice. It is all of these, but it is also something more difficult to name: a disciplined way of attending to the world through the body.
In Tai Chi: Philosophy and Phenomenology, Andrew Fitz-Gibbon reflects on Tai Chi as an embodied practice of perception, character, and meaning. Drawing on decades of philosophical teaching and his training in Chen family Tai Chi, he explores what it means to learn through movement, to cultivate stillness within motion, and to discover wisdom through repeated practice.
This is not a technical manual of postures or applications. It is a book about what happens when practice becomes a way of understanding. Fitz-Gibbon considers the language of Tai Chi—terms such as yi, qi, li, and jin—not as mystical abstractions, nor as ideas to be dismissed, but as traditional ways of describing experiences that disciplined practitioners come to recognize. He asks how such language works, how it shapes attention, and how it can be made intelligible without losing its depth.
The book moves between philosophy, phenomenology, spirituality, and the ordinary work of practice. It reflects on balance, softness, rootedness, intention, humility, mastery, and the long apprenticeship required by any serious craft. Tai Chi becomes a lens through which to consider larger questions: How do we inhabit the body? How do we learn to attend? What does tradition offer? What does mastery require? How might practice help us live with greater clarity, patience, and integrity?
Written in a reflective and accessible style, Tai Chi: Philosophy and Phenomenology will appeal to Tai Chi and qigong practitioners, martial artists, philosophers, teachers, spiritual seekers, and anyone interested in the relationship between body, mind, and way of life.
At its heart, this book is an invitation to take practice seriously—not as performance, display, or self-improvement technique, but as a quiet discipline through which the world slowly discloses itself.
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