A Chinese Reading of the Daodejing. Wang Bi's Commentary on...

Main
Society, Politics & Philosophy - Asian Philosophy
A Chinese Reading of the Daodejing....

A Chinese Reading of the Daodejing. Wang Bi's Commentary on the Laozi with Critical Text and Translation

Name: A Chinese Reading of the Daodejing. Wang Bi's Commentary on the Laozi with Critical Text and Translation
ISBN: 9780791451816

Rudolf G. Wagner, (Editor)

0 / 0

2 comments

How much do you like this book?

What’s the quality of the file?

Download the book for quality assessment

What’s the quality of the downloaded files?

Many of the brightest Chinese minds have used the form of the commentary to open the terse and poetic chapters of the Laozi to their readers and also to develop a philosophy of their own. None has been more sophisticated, philosophically probing, and influential in the endeavor than a young genius of the third century C.E., Wang Bi (226–249). In this book, Rudolf G. Wagner provides a full translation of the Laozi that extracts from Wang Bi’s Commentary the manner in which he read the text, as well as a full translation of Wang Bi’s Commentary and his essay on the “subtle pointers” of the Laozi. The result is a Chinese reading of the Laozi that will surprise and delight Western readers familiar with some of the many translations of the work.

Categories:

Society, Politics & Philosophy - Asian Philosophy

Year:

2003

Edition:

Bilingual

Publisher:

State University of New York Press

Language:

english

Pages:

531