The publishing house El Hilo de Ariadna published the first edition in Spanish of the book Figures of Immanence (For a Philosophical Reading of the I Ching), by the prestigious and renowned philosopher and sinologist François Jullien.
As the author puts it, of all the books that the various civilizations have produced, the I Ching is one of the strangest, not so much for its message, but for its composition. It is made up of only two types of line, one whole and the other broken, which are used to express the polarity that operates within the real. The game of superpositions of these lines allows to produce 64 figures. With this combinatorial approach, the I Ching proposes to make us access the intelligibility of things without having to resort to either the staging of a story or the development of an argument. In other words, without appealing to myth or speech. In this way, i...read more








