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

Wilhelm, Hellmut & Wilhelm, Richard

ISBN 10: 0691001715 / ISBN 13: 9780691001715

Published by Princeton University Press/Bollingen Series, Princeton, NJ, 1995

About this Item

339 pages; 4 3/4 x 8" Includes "Change: Eight Lectures on the I Ching", by Hellmut Wilhelm, translated from the German by Cary F. Baynes, Bollingen Series LXII. Also includes "Lectures on the I Ching: Constancy and Change", by Richard Wilhelm, translated from the German by Irene Eber, Bollingen Series XIX:2. Very light wear to cover edges and corners.

Seller Inventory # 127850

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Understanding the I Ching the Wilhelm Lectures on the Book of Changes
• Publisher: Princeton University Press/Bollingen Series, Princeton, NJ
• Publication Date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0691001715
• ISBN 13: 9780691001715
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: Near Fine

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

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.