Interpretation and Intellectual Change: Chinese Hermeneutics in Historical Perspective

ISBN-13: 9781138511040 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 366 str.

Opis

This volume deals with the development of Chinese hermeneutics, or exegetic systems, from their beginnings to the twentieth century

Spis treści

1: Hermeneutics of Confucian Classics; 1: Weighing the Way: Metaphoric Balance in Analects 9:30; 2: An Alternative Hermeneutics of Truth: Cui Shu’s Evidential Scholarship on Confucius; 3: Text and Context: Mencius’ View on Understanding the Poems of the Ancients; 4: The Book of Odes : A Case Study of the Chinese Hermeneutic Tradition; 2: Chinese Hermeneutics Beyond the Confucian Classics; 5: Early Modes on Interpretation of the Military Canons: The Case of the Sunzi bingfa; 6: Purifying the World: A Political Discourse in the Late Han; 7: Early Medieval Scholars’ Hermeneutics of the Calendrical Classics and the Astronomical Heavens; 8: Storytelling and the Earliest Buddhist Oral Text in China: Clues from Kumârajîva’s Commentary on the Vimalakîrti-sûtra; 3: Zhu Xi’s Construction of Neo-Confucian Hermeneutics; 9: The Debate on Ren Between Zhu Xi and the Huxiang Scholars; 10: Zhu Xi’s Poetic Hermeneutics and the Polemics of the “Licentious Poems”; 11: Two Ages, One Agenda? Zhu Xi’s Rules of Interpretation Versus Wang Yi’s Exegesis of the Songs of Chu; 4: Paradigm Shifts and Interpretative Strategies in the Ming-Qing Period; 12: Paradigm Shifts through Different Interpretations of the Classics in the Transitional Period from the Late Ming to the Early Qing; 13: Commentaries and Subcommentaries: The Relationship Between Zhu and Shu in the Confucian Hermeneutic Tradition; 14: Inter-Explanation of the Classics: Qing Scholars’ Methods for Interpreting the Five Classics; 15: Gender and Interpretation: Form and Rhetoric in Ming-Qing Women’s Poetry Criticism; 5: Chinese Hermeneutics in Modern Times; 16: In Defense of History: Zhang Binglin’s Interpretation of the Zuo Commentary; 17: Tradition, Modernity, and Critical Historical Consciousness: Lu Xun’s Reflections on History; 18: Toward a Humanist Interpretation of Tradition: The Hermeneutics of the “Critical Review Group”; 6: Chinese Hermeneutics: East and West; 19: Historical Narrative and Universal Principles in the Confucian Classics; 20: Affinity and Aporia: A Confucian Engagement with Gadamer’s Hermeneutics; 21: Chinese “Hermeneutics”—A Chimera? Preliminary Remarks on Differences of Understanding; 22: Inquiring into the Primary Model: The Yijing and the Structure of the Chinese Hermeneutic Tradition

O autorze

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