Tao Te Ching - Softcover

Hinton, David

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1619025566 ISBN 13: 9781619025561

Verlag: Counterpoint LLC, 2015

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"Hinton has established himself as the premier Chinese translator of our generation... He is a national treasure."--The New York Sun

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Having masterfully translated a wide range of ancient Chinese poets and philosophers, David Hinton is uniquely qualified to offer the definitive contemporary English version of Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching. Like all of his translations, Hinton's translation of the Tao Te Ching is mind-opening, presenting startling new dimensions in this widely-influential text. He shows how Lao Tzu's spirituality is structured around the generative life-force, for example, and that this system of thought weaves the human into natural process at the deepest levels of being, thereby revealing the Tao Te Ching as an originary text in deep feminist and ecological thought.

Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching is not only the single most important text ever composed in China, it is probably the most influential spiritual text in human history. In the past, virtually all translations of this text have been produced either by sinologists having little poetic facility in English, or writers having no ability to read the original Chinese. Hinton's fluency in ancient Chinese and his acclaimed poetic ability provide him the essential qualifications. Together, they allow a breathtaking new translation that reveals how remarkably current and even innovative this text is after 2500 years.

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• Verlag: Counterpoint LLC
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1619025566
• ISBN 13: 9781619025561
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 128