1st Edition
Interpretation and Intellectual Change Chinese Hermeneutics in Historical Perspective
Edited By Ching-I Tu
Copyright 2005
366 Pages
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Routledge
380 Pages
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Routledge
366 Pages
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Routledge
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This volume deals with the development of Chinese hermeneutics, or exegetic systems, from their beginnings to the twentieth century. The contributors address critical issues in the study of Chinese hermeneutics by focusing on key periods during which the hermeneutic tradition in China underwent significant changes. The volume is divided into six parts, corresponding to the six major periods of... Read more
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
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Ching-I Tu
