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The Useless Tree is Steve Brandl's complete rendering of the Zhuangzi in three distinct voices: clear prose, reflective investigation, and lyrical verse. Moving through all thirty-three chapters, this book opens one of the great classics of Daoist thought to the modern reader without flattening its strangeness, humor, or depth.

Where Laozi is spare and still, Zhuangzi is playful, unpredictable, and alive with story. Butterflies dream, butchers reveal the Way, useless trees outlive the useful, and certainty begins to loosen its grip. Brandl brings these ancient texts into conversation with contemporary questions of mind, self, perception, and the stories human beings live inside.

This is not a scholarly translation in the narrow sense, but a literary and philosophical encounter: accessible, contemplative, and unafraid of paradox. For readers of Daoism, seekers of wisdom, and anyone drawn to the meeting place of ancient insight and modern consciousness, The Useless Tree offers a living Zhuangzi for our time.

Parametry knihy

• Plný název: The Useless Tree
• Autor: Steve Brandl
• Jazyk: Angličtina
• Vazba: Brožovaná
• Počet stran: 178
• EAN: 9798233292507
• ID: 51614567
• Nakladatelství: Steve Brandl
• Hmotnost: 215 g
• Rozměry: 216 × 140 × 10 mm
• Datum vydání: 31. March 2026

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