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THE PATH AND ITS POWER: Lao Zi's Thoughts for the 21st Century - Couverture souple

Williams, Jay

 
9780595484195: THE PATH AND ITS POWER: Lao Zi's Thoughts for the 21st Century
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0595484190 ISBN 13 : 9780595484195
Editeur : iUniverse, 2008

Synopsis

Very few books from Asia have been translated more frequently than Lao Zi's Dao De Jing. His philosophy seems to be a perennial favorite with Americans. Nevertheless, readers often find translations wildly at variance with one another and sometimes difficult to understand. The Path and Its Power does not pretend to be yet one more translation. Rather it is a total restatement of the Dao De Jing, as though Lao Zi had been reborn to speak anew to the 21st Century. The author uses 81 short readable poems to restate his message for the present day.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Very few books from Asia have been translated more frequently than Lao Zi's Dao De Jing. His philosophy seems to be a perennial favorite with Americans. Nevertheless, readers often find translations wildly at variance with one another and sometimes difficult to understand. The Path and Its Power does not pretend to be yet one more translation. Rather it is a total restatement of the Dao De Jing, as though Lao Zi had been reborn to speak anew to the 21st Century. The author uses 81 short readable poems to restate his message for the present day.

Biographie de l'auteur

Jay G. Williams, Walcott-Bartlett Professor of Religious Studies at Hamilton College has been teaching about Chinese thought for forty years. This book offers his own personal reflections about Lao Zi?s Dao De Jing, one of the great Chinese classics. In it Lao Zi addresses us, not from the ancient past, but from our own 21st Century. Lao Zi, the ancient Chinese sage, now finds himself quite at home in the rural landscape of upstate New York as he meditates about our own personal and political problems.

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Éditeur
iUniverse
Date d'édition
2008
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0595484190
ISBN 13 
9780595484195
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
112
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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