Tao Te Ching: A Book about the Way and the Power of the Way

by Ursula K. Le Guin, Lao Tzu, J.P. Seaton

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Like , acclaimed author and poet Ursula K. Le Guin has attempted a nonliteral, poetic rendition of the Tao Te Ching. She brings to it a punctuated grace that can only have been hammered out during long trials of wordsmithing. The wisdom that she finds in the Tao Te Chingis primal, and her spare, undulating phrases speak volumes. By making the text her own, Le Guin avoids such questions as "Is it accurate?" By making it her own, she has made it for us--a new, uncarved block from which we are free to sculpt our own meaning.

Book Details

ISBN13	9781570623950
ISBN10	1570623953
Series/Work	OL45503W View on OpenLibrary
Publisher	Shambhala
Pages	125
Language	EN-US
Created At	January 30, 2025
Updated At	February 14, 2025
Last OL update	January 18, 2025

Subjects

299.5/1482 Asian Philosophy Bl1900.l26 e5 2008b China Chinese classics Chinese Philosophy Chinese Taoist literature Classic Literature Commentaries Concordances Dao de jing (Laozi) Early works to 1800 Fiction Laozi Laozi, dao de jing Military art and science Philosophie PHILOSOPHY Philosophy and religion Philosophy, chinese

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