Contemporary Interpretations and Readings of the Yijing

The Changes in Our Times
Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-981-960608-5
Verlag: Springer Nature Singapore

Buch, Englisch, 207 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 498 g

Reihe: Chinese Culture

This book questions whether the ancient, iconic Chinese book of divination, might help us navigate the precarious, complex, and seemingly unpredictable intricacies of present contemporary times. The essays contained in this book respond affirmatively to this question in seeking to show how can help us think through the particularly human challenge of establishing meaning and making choices between alternatives. The author’s book explores and discusses novel and often surprising ways for contemporary readers to interpret and apply this ancient Chinese classic, touching upon fields such as narration, technology, ecology, psychology, aesthetics, ontology, cognition, semiotics, and gender issues. This book is of appeal to both students and informed readers with an interest in the mysteries of , and to researchers in areas of Chinese philosophy, Chinese history, religious studies, and East Asian approaches to health and well-being.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hon, Tze-Ki

Sigurðsson, Geir

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Nicht-Westliche Philosophie Indische & Asiatische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Sonstige Religionen Östliche Religionen
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Komplementäre Medizin, Asiatische Medizin (TCM), Heilpraktiker
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Sozialpsychologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction.- Part One: New Meanings.- Ancient Chinese Cosmologies and Models for Action: Examining the Influence of the on Two Excavated Manuscripts.- Mythic Narratives in the and the .- Chinese Cosmotechnology: Dao ? and Qi ? in the .- How Do We Know? Intuition and Ratio in the .- Transformation and Change: The and Chinese Aesthetic Theory.- Part Two: Contemporary Implications.- The Ideas of Dynamism and Stability in the and Contemporary Thought.- Image as Instrument (qi ?): Prognostication and “Knowing” in American Pragmatism.- In Search of Possibilities: The Philosophy of Divination in the .- and Feminism: Gender Equality in the Scandinavian Interpretations of the Book of Change.- and Whitehead: A Comparison of Eight Trigrams Diagram and Categoreal Scheme .- A Paradigm Shift: The Studies in North America,1980-2020.

Über Autor(innen)

Geir Sigurðsson is Professor of Chinese studies and philosophy at University of Iceland. His research seeks ways to facilitate meaningful dialogues between Western and Chinese philosophy through comparison of methodologies, epistemological approaches, cosmology, views of education, and values of life. He is author of (2015), which received Society of Professors of Education Outstanding Book Award Honorable Mention, an annotated translation of the ancient Chinese classic into Icelandic (2019), and over 50 journal articles and book chapters.

Tze-ki Hon is Professor at the Research Center for History and Culture of Beijing Normal University, Zhuhai 519087, China. Concurrently, he is Dean of Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at BNU-HKBU United International College. Before he relocated to Zhuhai, he taught at City University of Hong Kong, State University of New York at Geneseo, and Hanover College, Indiana. Over the last three decades, he wrote four books: (2005)(2013), (with Geoffrey Redmond, 2014), and (2014).