Appropriating the Dao

Download or read book Appropriating the Dao written by Lukas K. Pokorny and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2024-05-02 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book explores the reception and appropriation of East Asian religious and philosophical notions, ideas, and patterns of thought within the Euro-American esoteric current from the 18th - 21st century. Chapters encompass research on the early phase of reception, pertaining to Daoism and the Yijing in the 19th century's Euro-American occult milieu, with additional attempts to locate tropes and patterns even earlier - that is, within the 18th century's mesmerism and figurism"--