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Reading the I Ching (Book of Changes): Themes, Imagery, Expressions, and Rhetoric
The 3,000 year old I Ching is the most esteemed of the ancient Chinese classics, yet also...
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The 3,000 year old I Ching is the most esteemed of the ancient Chinese classics, yet also the most enigmatic. Reading the I Ching (Book of Changes)incorporates recent advances in scholarship, such as recently excavated texts, and demonstrates how the Zhouyi(the ancient textual layer of the I Ching) was compiled from mostly oral material and how it was organized to serve as an easily consulted compendium of divination responses.
In this book Geoffrey Redmond clarifies the meanings of the ancient text by examining use of literary devices such as prognostic terms, imagery from daily life, rhetorical tropes, metaphors, proverbs and set phrases. This provides insight on how the Zhouyiwas composed and explains its use for divination. It also shows how, centuries later, the Zhouyiwas adapted by the Confucians, who believed it to be the creation of ancient sages, and the source of their metaphysics and cosmology. Redmond also analyzes the Changes through a variety of philological heuristics, such as the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, methods of analogy and anomaly, the distinction between argumentative and context dependence, as well as modern approaches such as Jungian psychology, and critical theory. Included are the interlinear Chinese text, and a glossary of key words in English, Chinese, and pinyin, making it essential reading for students studying Chinese philosophy, Chinese religion, and early Chinese history, as well as readers looking for a clear and accessible gloss of this text.
Author: Geoffrey Redmond
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published: 06/13/2024
Pages: 288
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.26lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.69d
ISBN: 9781350078178
About the Author
Geoffrey Redmond is an independent scholar, USA. He is the author of The I Ching (Book of Changes): A Critical Translation of the Ancient Text (Bloomsbury, 2017).
In this book Geoffrey Redmond clarifies the meanings of the ancient text by examining use of literary devices such as prognostic terms, imagery from daily life, rhetorical tropes, metaphors, proverbs and set phrases. This provides insight on how the Zhouyiwas composed and explains its use for divination. It also shows how, centuries later, the Zhouyiwas adapted by the Confucians, who believed it to be the creation of ancient sages, and the source of their metaphysics and cosmology. Redmond also analyzes the Changes through a variety of philological heuristics, such as the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, methods of analogy and anomaly, the distinction between argumentative and context dependence, as well as modern approaches such as Jungian psychology, and critical theory. Included are the interlinear Chinese text, and a glossary of key words in English, Chinese, and pinyin, making it essential reading for students studying Chinese philosophy, Chinese religion, and early Chinese history, as well as readers looking for a clear and accessible gloss of this text.
Author: Geoffrey Redmond
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published: 06/13/2024
Pages: 288
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.26lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.69d
ISBN: 9781350078178
About the Author
Geoffrey Redmond is an independent scholar, USA. He is the author of The I Ching (Book of Changes): A Critical Translation of the Ancient Text (Bloomsbury, 2017).
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