I Ching, The Oracle - Couverture souple

Huang, K

 
9789971966256: I Ching, The Oracle
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 9971966255 ISBN 13 : 9789971966256
Editeur : Wspc, 1984

Synopsis

This book contains a dramatic and revealing translation of this ancient classic into English. The Chinese original is set side-by-side with the translation. Two things set this translation apart from all previous ones. First, archeological findings are used to uncover the meaning of passages obscured for thousands of years. Second, it preserves the flavor of the orignal in a poetic rendition. An introductory part of this book provides the historical and philosophical background to the I Ching. The story is told of the ancient Chinese civilization, pointing out events and figures mentioned in the I Ching. The undisguised face of the I Ching will appeal to the modern reader, who will read it in his or her own individual way, as poetry, as discoverer of self, or as soothsayer. It is in the grand tradition of the I Ching for different people to see different things.- To Confucius, who was born in 550 B.C., it was a source of ethics.- T Leibnitz, the eighteenth-century inventor of calculus, it was the essence of binary mathematics.- To Jung Freud's rival in psychology, it was an explorer of the unconscious. To some Wall Streeters, it predicts the stock market.As a companion to this book, a computer software, Huang's I Ching offers computerized consultations of the I Ching. In the court of Zhou, they used to do this by counting stalks of the yarrow reed. Results of the court would indicate what passages to read. In later ages, yarrow-counting was replaced by coin-tossing, as a ritual closer to people's lifestyle. And now, the I Ching is ready for the future.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

This book contains a dramatic and revealing translation of this ancient classic into English. The Chinese original is set side-by-side with the translation. Two things set this translation apart from all previous ones. First, archeological findings are used to uncover the meaning of passages obscured for thousands of years. Second, it preserves the flavor of the orignal in a poetic rendition. An introductory part of this book provides the historical and philosophical background to the I Ching. The story is told of the ancient Chinese civilization, pointing out events and figures mentioned in the I Ching. The undisguised face of the I Ching will appeal to the modern reader, who will read it in his or her own individual way, as poetry, as discoverer of self, or as soothsayer. It is in the grand tradition of the I Ching for different people to see different things.- To Confucius, who was born in 550 B.C., it was a source of ethics.- T Leibnitz, the eighteenth-century inventor of calculus, it was the essence of binary mathematics.- To Jung Freud's rival in psychology, it was an explorer of the unconscious. To some Wall Streeters, it predicts the stock market.As a companion to this book, a computer software, Huang's I Ching offers computerized consultations of the I Ching. In the court of Zhou, they used to do this by counting stalks of the yarrow reed. Results of the court would indicate what passages to read. In later ages, yarrow-counting was replaced by coin-tossing, as a ritual closer to people's lifestyle. And now, the I Ching is ready for the future.

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Éditeur
Wspc
Date d'édition
1984
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
9971966255
ISBN 13 
9789971966256
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
192
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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ISBN 10 :  9971966247 ISBN 13 :  9789971966249
Editeur : World Scientific Publishing Co P..., 1984
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