Description
Book SynopsisThis book examines the paradoxical structure of Yijing known as the Book of Changesa structure that promotes in a non-hierarchical way the harmony and transformation of opposites. Because the non-hierarchical model is not limited to the East Asian tradition, it will be considered in relation to ideas developed in the West, including Carl Jung''s archetypal psychology, Georg Cantor''s Diagonal Theorem, Rene Girard''s mimetic desire, and Alfred North Whitehead''s process thought. By critically reviewing the numerical and symbolic structures of Yijing, the author introduces Kim Ilbu''s Jeongyeok (The Book of Right Changes) and demonstrates that he intensifies the correlation between opposites to overcome any hierarchical system implied by the Yijing. Both the Yijing and the Jeongyeok are textual sources for kindling a discussion about the Divine conceived in Eastern and Western philosophical-theological traditions quite differently. While the non-theistic aspects of the Ultimate featur
Table of Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
Introduction
Chapter One: The Historical Background and Structure of the Yijing
Chapter Two: Change and Creativity in the Cosmology of the Yijing
Chapter Three: The Problem of Paradox and Creativity in the Language of the Yijing
Chapter Four: Jung’s Archetypal Psychology and Yijing on the Theory of Synchronicity
Chapter Five: Shao Yong’s Yijing Diagrams and Cantor’s Diagonal Theorem
Chapter Six: The Topological Paradigm of the Yijing and the Jeongyeok as a Correction
Chapter Seven: The Core Principle of the Jeongyeok
Chapter Eight: Rene Girard’s Mimetic Desire and the Problem of Directionality
Chapter Nine: The Divine Personality-Impersonality and Interreligious Relations
Chapter Ten: From Yijing to Jeongyeok and East-West Dialogue
Selected Bibliography
Index
About the Author
