Understanding the I Ching

Wilhelm, Hellmut; Wilhelm, Richard

ISBN 10: 0691001715 / ISBN 13: 9780691001715

Published by Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 1995

First PB Edition, 2nd Printing. Trade PB in illustrated wraps. Fine and unmarked. 339pp inc. Notes and Index. 352 p. Seller Inventory # 041861

Synopsis:

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.

About the Author: 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.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Understanding the I Ching
Publisher: Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ
Publication Date: 1995
Binding: Trade Paperback
Condition: Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: Wraps
Edition: First PB Edition.
Book Type: Book