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

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Understanding the I Ching: The Wilhelm Lectures on the Book of Changes
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Hellmut Wilhelm
By (author) Richard Wilhelm
Translated by Cary F. Baynes
Translated by Irene Eber
SeriesMythos: The Princeton/Bollingen Series in World Mythology
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:352
Dimensions(mm): Height 203,Width 127
Category/GenreConfucianism
ISBN/Barcode 9780691001715
ClassificationsDewey:299.51282
Audience
General
Tertiary Education (US: College)
Professional & Vocational
Illustrations 2 illus.

Publishing Details

Publisher Princeton University Press
Imprint Princeton University Press
Publication Date 4 June 1995
Publication Country United States

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.

Author Biography

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.

Reviews

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