Understanding the I Ching

"Heraclitus, who held that life was movement and that it developed through the conflict of opposites, also conceived a harmonious world order, the Logos, that shapes this chaos. But to the Chinese, as we shall see, the two principles, movement and the unchanging law governing it, are one: they know neither kernel nor husk-heart and mind function together undivided."--Hellmut Wilhelm

List 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

About the author

Hellmut Wilhelm & Richard Wilhelm
Translated from the German by Cary F. Baynes and Irene Eber

Summary

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.

Additional text

"This volume is a fascinating look at the I Ching and the researchers who study it."

Product details

• Authors: Hellmut Wilhelm, Richard Wilhelm
• Assisted by: C. F. Baynes (Translation), Cary Baynes (Translation), Cary F Baynes (Translation), Cary F. Baynes (Translation), Irene Eber (Translation)
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.05.1995
• EAN: 9780691001715
• ISBN: 978-0-691-00171-5
• Dimensions: 122 mm x 205 mm x 20 mm
• Series: Bollingen Series; Bollingen Series (General); Bollingen Series; Bollingen; Mythos: The Princeton/Bollingen Series in World Mythology
• Subject: Guides > Spirituality > Life interpretation