Lao-tzu and the Tao-te-ching
Lao-tzu and the Tao-te-ching

Author: Livia Kohn

Publisher: SUNY Press

Published: 1998-01-01

Total Pages: 346

ISBN-13: 9780791435991

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Examines the traditional and modern Western interpretations of the Tao-te-ching, and its author, Lao-tzu.

Questions for Translation Studies
Questions for Translation Studies

Author: Douglas Robinson

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company

Published: 2023-08-15

Total Pages: 281

ISBN-13: 9027249466

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This is a book in the classical Quaestiones genre, like the Tusculanae Quaestiones (“Tusculan questions”) of Cicero (around 45 BCE) and the Quæstiones disputatæ de Veritate (“disputed questions on truth”) of St. Thomas Aquinas (1256-1259). It seeks to ask seven series of questions about key theoretical approaches to the study of translation: three on equivalence theories (semantic equivalence, dynamic equivalence, and deverbalization), three on Descriptive Translation Studies (norms, Toury’s laws, and the translator’s narratoriality), and one on the translator’s visibility. Each “Question” (chapter) charts a circuitous course through past answers to new questions and new answers, drawing especially on the theoretical traditions of hermeneutics, phenomenology, and 4EA cognitive science. The book will guide both veteran and novice scholars of translation deep into the complexities besetting the seven keywords.

Dao De Jing
Dao De Jing

Author: Roger Ames

Publisher: Ballantine Books

Published: 2010-05-12

Total Pages: 258

ISBN-13: 0307755304

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In 1993, archaeologists unearthed a set of ancient bamboo scrolls that contained the earliest known version of the Dao de jing. Composed more than two thousand years ago, this life-changing document offers a regimen of self-cultivation to attain personal excellence and revitalize moral behavior. Now in this luminous new translation, renowned China scholars Roger T. Ames and David L. Hall bring the timeless wisdom of the Dao de jing into our contemporary world. In this elegant volume, Ames and Hall feature the original Chinese texts of the Dao de jing and translate them into crisp, chiseled English that reads like poetry. Each of the eighty-one brief chapters is followed by clear, thought-provoking commentary exploring the layers of meaning in the text. This new version of one of the world’s most influential documents will stand as both a compelling introduction to Daoist thought and as the classic modern English translation.

Transcendence and Non-Naturalism in Early Chinese Thought
Transcendence and Non-Naturalism in Early Chinese Thought

Author: Alexus McLeod

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2020-09-03

Total Pages: 257

ISBN-13: 1350082554

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Contemporary scholars of Chinese philosophy often presuppose that early China possessed a naturalistic worldview, devoid of any non-natural concepts, such as transcendence. Challenging this presupposition head-on, Joshua R. Brown and Alexus McLeod argue that non-naturalism and transcendence have a robust and significant place in early Chinese thought. This book reveals that non-naturalist positions can be found in early Chinese texts, in topics including conceptions of the divine, cosmogony, and apophatic philosophy. Moreover, by closely examining a range of early Chinese texts, and providing comparative readings of a number of Western texts and thinkers, the book offers a way of reading early Chinese Philosophy as consistent with the religious philosophy of the East and West, including the Abrahamic and the Brahmanistic religions. Co-written by a philosopher and theologian, this book draws out unique insights into early Chinese thought, highlighting in particular new ways to consider a range of Chinese concepts, including tian, dao, li, and you/wu.

Biblia
Biblia

Author: Charles Henry Stanley Davis

Publisher:

Published: 1897

Total Pages: 428

ISBN-13:

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