Tao Te Ching

David Hinton

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Counterpoint
09 June 2015

Oriental & Indian philosophy

An expert on Chinese poetry and philosophy offers a definitive modern translation ofLao Tzu's Taoistclassic-consideredthe most influential spiritual text in human history.

Like all of his translations, Hinton's translation of the Tao Te Ching is mind-opening, presenting startling new dimensions in this widely-influential text. He shows how Lao Tzu's spirituality is structured around the generative life-force and that this system of thought weaves the human into natural process at the deepest levels of being-revealing the Tao Te Ching as an originary text in deep feminist and ecological thought.

Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching is not only the single most important text ever composed in China, it is probably the most influential spiritual text in human history. In the past, virtually all translations of this text have been produced either by sinologists having little poetic facility in English, or writers having no ability to read the original Chinese. Hinton's fluency in ancient Chinese and his acclaimed poetic ability provide him the essential qualifications. Together, they allow a breathtaking new translation that reveals how remarkably current and even innovative this text is after 2500 years.

By: David Hinton
Imprint: Counterpoint
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 209mm, Width: 139mm, Spine: 8mm
Weight: 156g
ISBN: 9781619025561
ISBN 10: 1619025566
Pages: 128
Publication Date: 09 June 2015
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

David Hinton has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, numerous fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities, and both of the major awards given for poetry translation in the United States- the Landon Translation Award, and the PEN Translation Award. His recent book of essays, Hunger Mountain- A Field Guide to Mind and Landscape, was on the Best-Books-of-the-Year list at The Guardian in England. Hinton lives in Vermont.