Short 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. This title offers an introduction to the I Ching and the meaning of its famous hexagrams.
Long 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.
Review
This volume is a fascinating look at the I Ching and the researchers who study it. -- Religious Studies Review
Table of contents
- Change: Eight Lectures on the I Ching 1Origins 2The Concept of Change 3The Two Fundamental Principles 4The Trigrams and the Hexagrams 5The Hexagrams Ch'ien and K'un 6The Ten Wings 7The Later History of the Book of Changes 8The Oracle Book Lectures on the I Ching: Constancy and Change Opposition and Fellowship The Spirit of Art According to the Book of Changes Constancy in Change Death and Renewal Notes Index