Myth and Meaning in Early Daoism examines some of the earliest texts associated with the Daoist tradition (primarily the Daode jing, Zhuangzi, and Huainanzi) from the outlook of the comparative history of religions and finds a kind of thematic and soteriological unity rooted in the mythological symbolism of hundun, the primal chaos being and principle that is foundational for t...(展开全部)

诺曼·吉瑞德（Norman J. Girardot），1943年生，原为圣玛利亚大学神学系教授，现任美国理海大学宗教研究所杰出教授；国际知名哲学、艺术学、宗教学学者，曾任国际比较史学杂志《宗教史》编辑。一直致力于中国宗教传统尤其是道教的研究与教学。其他研究领域包括流行宗教运动，中国思想史，比较宗教学，宗教与非主流艺术的关系等。撰写、评介、编辑及翻译相关著作多部，其中《道教与生态：宇宙景观的内在之道》（2001，主编）及《朝觐东方：理雅各评传》（2002，独著，此书获得美国费正清汉学研究奖，美国宗教学优秀奖）已译成中文与广大中国读者见面。 译者简介：蔡觉敏，女，北京大学古代文学博士，天津外国语大学副教授。发表论文有《〈水浒传〉与道家道教》、《生命困局、思想与文学的相近与不同——庄子与屈原异同浅论》等论文几十篇，与人合作编辑《道家道教与湖南》一书，著有《...(展开全部)

Entitled 'Myth and Meaning,' the talks were broadcast on the CBC Radio series, Ideas, in December 1977. They were assembled from a series of lengthy conversations between Professor Lévi-Strauss and Carole Orr Jerome, producer in the Paris bureau of the CBC. The programs were organized by Geraldine Sherman, executive producer of Ideas, and produced by Bernie Lucht.

艾兰（Sarah Allam） 著名汉学家。1945年出生于美国，1974年获加利福尼亚大学伯克莱分校博士学位。1972年始任教于英国伦敦大学亚非学院（SOAS），现为美国达慕思大学（Dartmouth College）“中国研究”讲座教授。主要从事甲骨文、青铜器、竹简的研究，并教授中国古代哲学文献，对先秦的文献、考古、思想和文化颇多涉猎。

For those to whom "Taoism" is the Tao te ching and Chuang-tzu, nothing could seem more foreign to Taoism than bureaucracy. In these two classics, the Way (tao) is everything that bureaucracy is not: it is nonhierarchical, undifferentiated, ineffable, spontaneous. The bureaucratic spirit pertains rather to stuffy Confucians, who foolishly imagine that the way to fulfill human po...(展开全部)

"The Religion of China: Confucianism and Taoism" (original Free Press edition 1951) is one of a number of works by the German sociologist Max Weber (1864-1920) published in English translation only long after his death, during a post-World-War II boom in Anglo-American interest in his writing. Such interest has recurred at irregular intervals since (one marked by this 1968 pape...(展开全部)

Chaos surrounds us. Seemingly random events -- the flapping of a flag, a storm-driven wave striking the shore, a pinball's path -- often appear to have no order, no rational pattern. Explicating the theory of chaos and the consequences of its principal findings -- that actual, precise rules may govern such apparently random behavior -- has been a major part of the work of Edwar...(展开全部)

Wilfred Cantwell Smith, maintained in this vastly important work that Westerners have misperceived religious life by making "religion" into one thing. He shows the inadequacy of "religion" to capture the living, endlessly variable ways and traditions in which religious faith presents itself in the world.

A homage to the city of Trieste, rich with history and tinged with the melancholy of remembrance. "Morris at the peak of her form." - The Atlantic Monthly . Here's a book for lovers of all things Italian. This city on the Adriatic has always tantalized Jan Morris with its moodiness and changeability. After visiting Trieste for more than half a century, she has come to see it as...(展开全部)