Understanding the I Ching: The Wilhelm Lectures on the Book of Changes
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
Understanding the I Ching: The Wilhelm Lectures on the Book of Changes
By (Author) Hellmut Wilhelm
By (author) Richard Wilhelm
Translated by Cary F. Baynes
Translated by Irene Eber
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
4th June 1995
United States
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
299.51282
Physical Properties
Paperback
352
Width 127mm, Height 203mm
340g
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.
Reviews
"This volume is a fascinating look at the I Ching and the researchers who study it."--Religious Studies Review
Author Bio
This book was originally published in two volumes, Change: Eight Lectures on the 'I Ching' by Hellmut Wilhelm and Lectures on the 'I Ching': Constancy and Change by Richard Wilhelm.
