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Daodejing (Paperback)
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Daodejing (Paperback)
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Loot Price R287
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"so both thrive both discovering bliss-real power is female it
rises from beneath" These 81 brief poems from the 5th century BCE
make up a foundational text in world culture. In elegant, simple
yet elusive language, the Daodejing develops its vision of
humankind's place in the world in personal, moral, social,
political and cosmic terms. Martyn Crucefix's superb new versions
in English reflect - for the very first time - the radical fluidity
of the original Chinese texts as well as placing the mysterious
'dark' feminine power at their heart. Laozi, the putative author,
is said to have despaired of the world's venality and corruption,
but he was persuaded to leave the Daodejing poems as a parting
gift, as inspiration and as a moral and political handbook.
Crucefix's versions reveal an astonishing empathy with what the
poems have to say about good and evil, war and peace, government,
language, poetry and the pedagogic process. When the true teacher
emerges, no matter how detached, unimpressive, even muddled she may
appear, Laozi assures us "there are treasures beneath".
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