This book questions whether the ancient, iconic Chinese book of divination, The Classic of Changes (Yijing) 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 The Classic of Changes 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 The Classic of Changes, and to researchers in areas of Chinese philosophy, Chinese history, religious studies, and East Asian approaches to health and well-being.
Introduction.- Part One: New Meanings.- Ancient Chinese Cosmologies and Models for Action: Examining the Influence of the Zhouyion Two Excavated Manuscripts.- Mythic Narratives in the Zhouyi and the Guicang Yi.- Chinese Cosmotechnology: Dao 道 and Qi 器 in the Yijing.- How Do We Know? Intuition and Ratio in the Yijing.- Transformation and Change: The Yijing and Chinese Aesthetic Theory.- Part Two: Contemporary Implications.- The Ideas of Dynamism and Stability in the Yijing and Contemporary Thought.- Image as Instrument (qi 器): Yijing Prognostication and “Knowing” in American Pragmatism.- In Search of Possibilities: The Philosophy of Divination in the Yijing.- Yijing and Feminism: Gender Equality in the Scandinavian Interpretations of the Book of Change.- Yijing and Whitehead: A Comparison of Eight Trigrams Diagram and Categoreal Scheme .- A Paradigm Shift: The Yijing Studies in North America,1980-2020.
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