Name: Lao Tzu Tao Te Ching
ISBN: 9786053161233

Ursula K. Le Guin

Lao Tzu Tao Te Ching

taylor miles hopkins

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True words aren't charming, charming words aren't true.

No other English translation of this greatest of the Chinese classics can match Ursula Le Guin's striking new version. Le Guin, best known for thought-provoking science fiction novels that have helped to transform the genre, has studied the Tao Te Ching for more than forty years. She has consulted the literal translations and worked with Chinese scholars to develop a version that lets the ancient text speak in a fresh way to modern people, while remaining faithful to the poetic beauty of the work. Avoiding scholarly interpretations and esoteric Taoist insights, she has revealed the Tao Te Ching 's immediate relevance and power, its depth and refreshing humor, in a way that shows better than ever before why it has been so much loved for more than 2,500 years. Included are Le Guin's own personal commentary and notes on the text. This new version is sure to be welcomed by the many readers of the Tao Te Ching as well as those coming to the text for the first time.

A Book about the Way and the Power of the Way

Lao Tzu: Tao Te Ching

Ursula Le Guin strikes again! Favorites:

Soul Food (2)

Nothing and Not (23)

Skill (27)

Kinds of Power (33)

The Small Dark Light (36)

Integrity (39)

Real Power (45)

Trust and Power (49)

Love of Life (50)

Some Rules (54)

Lowdown (66)

Three Treasures (67)

using Mystery (69)

Greed (75)

Hardness (76)

Paradoxes (78)

Freedom (80)

Deniz Erkaradağ

"Anarşistlerle Taocuların iyi arkadaş olmalarına şaşırmamalı"

Önce Ursula K. Le Guin, ardından da Bülent Somay ve Ezgi Keskinsoy'un izinden bir çeviri serüveni. Özellikle bu basımı çevirmen arkadaşlarıma tavsiye ediyorum. Taoculuk üzerine ise daha çok okuma yapmak isterim.

Most people know Ursula K. Le Guin for her extraordinary science fiction and fantasy writing. Fewer know just how pervasive Taoist themes are to so much of her work. And in Lao Tzu- Tao Te Ching, we are treated to Le Guin's unique take on Taoist philosophy's founding classic. Reflecting more than forty years of Le Guin's personal study and contemplation, her rendering of the text is a brilliant testament to her deep-seated understanding of Taoist principles and their value for our troubled world today. Avoiding traditional patriarchal interpretations, scholarly fixations, and esotericism, she embues the Tao Te Ching with transformative, awe-inspiring power like no other. Also included are Le Guin's personal reflections and notes on the text throughout. To anyone who has enjoyed Le Guin's writing and yearns for a deeper window into her mind--or to all who simply wish to explore the philosophical bedrock that shaped an incredible, historically significant author--Le Guin's Lao Tzu- Tao Te Ching will be an incomparable treasure.

Lao Tzu Tao Te Ching

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