Understanding the I Ching

ISBN: 9780691001715

出版社: Princeton University Press

出版年: 1995-5-15

页数: 308

定价: USD 24.95

装帧: Paperback

内容简介

The West's foremost translator of the "I Ching", Richard Wilhelm thought deeply about how contemporary readers could benefit from this ancient work and its perennially valid insights into change and chance. For him and for his son, Hellmut Wilhelm, the "Book of Changes" represented not just a mysterious book of oracles or a notable source of the Taoist and Confucian philosophies. In their hands, it emerges, as it did for C.G. Jung, as a vital key to humanity's age-old collective unconscious. Here the observations of the Wilhelms are combined in a volume that will reward specialists and aficionados with its treatment of historical context - and that will serve also as an introduction to the "I Ching" and the meaning of its famous hexagrams.