Understanding the I Ching: The Wilhelm Lectures on the Book of Changes

by Hellmut Wilhelm and Richard Wilhelm

Book Overview

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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691001715
• ISBN13: 9780691001715
• Release Date: May 1995
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 0.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 4.8" x 8.2"

Customer Reviews

Understanding the I Ching

This is a classic, the presentation and edition are careful and well presented. An excelent edition