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Index
Cover
Title Page
Dedication
Acknowledgments
Preface
Table of Contents
Introduction
Chapter 1 - The Body as A Temple
Chapter 2 - More Than Martial, More Than Art: Martial Arts and the Alteration of Consciousness
Chapter 3 - In the Company of A Nomadic Samurai and A Chinese Poet Warrior: The Strategies of Martial Arts Applied to Everyday Life
Chapter 4 - The Princess and the Warrior, The Yin and the Yang: The Feminine in the Martial Arts
Chapter 5 - The Warrior’s Rites
In the Dojo
When I Remember Who I Am, Nothing Is a Problem: The Practice
The Master
The Weapons
Kata and Forms
Styles (Part One)
Styles (Part Two)
Chapter 6 - Martial Arts, Media, and Myth
Chapter 7 - Six Warrior Archetypes
The Samurai
The Ninja
The Searchers
The Hermit
The Ronin
The Tribal Warrior
Chapter 8 - The Warrior as Bodhisattva
Chapter 9 - Making Order Out of Chaos: A Typology of Martial Arts Styles
Introduction
The Model
Performance Arts
Internal Arts
Weapon Arts
Self-Defense Arts
Combat Sports
Grappling
Striking
Combined Combat Sports
Conclusion
Chapter 10 - Finding the Buddha in A Cage: The Difficult Marriage Between Martial Arts Philosophy and No-Holds-Barred Competition
Chapter 11 - Epistemological Anarchism: The Philosophy of Jeet Kune Do
Introduction
Not New, Yet New
The Break with Chinese Tradition
If You Meet the Buddha, Kill Him: JKD’s Allergy for Authority
Martial Arts Styles as Ideological Prisons: Freedom from Belonging
Using No Way as the Way: Lee’s Epistemological Anarchism
Simplicity
Philosophy Goes to the Movies (And Spills Popcorn All Over Itself)
Jeet Kune Do as the Archetypal Martial Art of the 1960s
Chapter 12 - Sacred and Profane: Combat Sports as Athletic Philosophy
Chapter 13 - On Failed Friendships, Martial Arts, Nietzsche, and Self-Perfection
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