Summary
Ksenia Premur: Lao Tzu
In the mode of "soft thinking" Ksenia Premur with her work "Lao Tzu" influences the circle of perennial thinking and through it looks at the Chinese philosophical thinking in fragments, but enters the field of "opposition" deeply feeling the "unfruitfulness" of such approaches and justifiably turns to the selection of original texts. In this work on the spiritual tradition of Daoism, she brilliantly philosophically hermeneutizes the basic elements of Dao spirituality and provides a new fresh approach that articulates the possibility of not only a new "reading/understanding" but a sense of living. With her work on Daoism and translations of ancient texts, Ksenija Premur brought this issue closer to the reader. In the excellently translated work Dao De Jing, which is a critical edition created by comparing a series of previous translations of this fundamental work of Chinese spirituality, the author in her comments tries to expand and deepen the insight into the Dao as the supreme principle of the cosmos and compare it with other Far Eastern philosophical traditions in the axial age of philosophy. The author is one of the few who in our academic environment systematically and scientifically correctly deals with this issue and publishes works with translations of original texts.
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