The Art of War (Innbundet)

The Art of War. A groundbreaking new translation with essays and commentary reveal this guide to enlightened living * Offers a fresh new universal perspective of the text: War is any situation that demands hard choices about creation, destruction, life and death; The State is the system in which we love - our household, our culture or society, or our own mind * Offers in depth essays and line-by-line commentary Previous translations of The Art of War have presented Sun Tzu's classic from the point of view of military strategy, Chinese history, or Taoist philosophy. This new translation offers a fresh perspective on this ancient Chinese text. Here Sun Tzu's strategic principles of warfare (based as they were on the fundamental insights of the Chinese spiritual and philosophical tradition) are seen as universally relevant - the foundation for personal transformation and the creation of a more enlightened society.