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Understanding the I ching: the Wilhelm lectures on the Book of Changes

By Hellmut Wilhelm , Richard Wilhelm

Book information

Publisher
Princeton University Press
Year
1995
ISBN
0691001715, 9780691001715
LCC
PL2464.Z7 W53 1995
Open Library ID
OL1111470M
Language
english
Format
DJVU
Filesize
27 MB (28558055 bytes)
Series
Bollingen Series XIX : 2
Pages
339\172
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

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.

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