Tao Te Ching

Informationen zum Autor Lao Tzu is the reputed founder of Taoism, but there is little evidence that he actually existed. He is said to have been a contemporary of Confucius and to have served as curator of the dynastic archives until retiring to the mythical K’un-lun mountains. David Hinton has translated many volumes of classical Chinese poetry and is the first translator in nearly two centuries to translate all five of the seminal classics in Chinese philosophy. This work has earned him many national awards in the United States, including a lifetime achievement award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His recent book of essays, Hunger Mountain: A Field Guide to Mind and Landscape was on the Best-Books-of-the-Year list at the Guardian . Klappentext A vibrant modern translation of the Tao Te Ching. Vorwort A vibrant modern translation of the Tao Te Ching. Zusammenfassung A vibrant modern translation of the Tao Te Ching.

Product details

• Authors: David Hinton, Lao Tzu, Lao Tzu, Tzu Lao
• Assisted by: David Hinton (Translation)
• Publisher: Macmillan
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 18
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 07.07.2022
• EAN: 9781529083477
• ISBN: 978-1-5290-8347-7
• No. of pages: 160
• Dimensions: 100 mm x 160 mm x 15 mm
• Series: Macmillan Collector's Library; Collector's Library
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; China, PHILOSOPHY / Social, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Ancient & Classical, PHILOSOPHY / Individual Philosophers, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Asian / Chinese, Social & political philosophy, social and political philosophy, Classical texts, BCE to c 500 CE, BCE period – Protohistory, Ancient, classical and medieval texts