Gu Chinese Theories of Reading and Writing

A Route to Hermeneutics and Open Poetics
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-0-7914-8347-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 348 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: SUNY series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture

A groundbreaking work that uncovers an implicit system of hermeneutics in traditional Chinese thought and aesthetics.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gu, Ming Dong

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Nicht-Westliche Philosophie Indische & Asiatische Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

Introduction: Hermeneutic Openness: A Transcultural Phenomenon The Rise of Hermeneutic Openness

Origins of Openness in China

Origins of Openness in the West

Paradoxes in Interpretive Theories

Two Hermeneutic Traditions in China

Objectives and Scope of Inquiry

Assumptions and Orientations

Part I: Conceptual Inquiries into Reading and Openness
1. Theories of Reading and Writing in Intellectual Thought Reading in a Comparative Context

Mencius' Positive Thesis of Reading

Zhuangzi's Counterstatement

Mencius' Hermeneutic Circle

Zhuangzi's Wordless Communication

Views of Reading after Mencius and Zhuangzi

A Chinese Model of Reading and Writing

2. Hermeneutic Openness in Aesthetic Thought Suggestiveness as an Aesthetic Category

Yiyin (Lingering Sound) and Yiwei (Lingering Taste)
Bujin zhiyi (Endless Meaning): Multivalence and Polysemy
Hanxu (Reserve): Unlimited Semiosis
Wu (Ontological Non-Being): Self-Generative Suggestiveness
Beyond Aesthetic Suggestiveness

Part II: Zhouyi Hermeneutics
3. The Zhouyi and Open Representation The Zhouyi as a System of Representation
The Eight Trigrams as an Open System of Representation

The Mechanisms of Openness in Hexagram Images

Open Representation in Hexagram and Line Statements

Indeterminacy in Zhouyi's Genesis

Ideas of Openness in Zhouyi Intellectual Thought
A Semiotic Model of Reading and Representation

The Source of the Zhouyi's Seductive Power
4. Elucidation of Images: Ancient Insights into Modern Ideas of Reading and Writing Situating The Hermeneutic Controversy

Mingxiang as a Hermeneutic Issue
Wang Bi as an Innovative Synthesizer

The Controversy over "Forgetting Images"

A Distinction between Meaning and Significance

Premodern Husserlians and Heideggerians

The Death of the Author and Rise of the Reader

Conceptual Significance of the Paradigm shift

Concluding Remarks

Part III: Shijing Hermeneutics
5. The Shijing and Open Poetics Literary Openness in the Shijing
The Open Textuality of "Guanju"
Textual and Extratextual Indeterminacy

A Notion of Open Field

Paronomastic Reading and Writing

6. Shijing Hermeneutics: Blindness and Insight In Search of Original Intentions

Two Paradigms: One Orientation

Indeterminate Subject Position

From Allegory To Open Readings

A Writing Model of Intertextual Dissemination

Part IV: Literary Hermeneutics
7. Open Poetics in Chinese Poetry Spatial Form and Linguistic Economy

The "Eye" of Openness

Symbiosis of Opposite Aesthetic Feelings

Metaphysical Emptiness

Serial Form and Oriented Openness

8. Linguistic Openness and the Poetic Unconscious Openness and Poetic Language

Openness and Syntactic Ambiguity

Dream Language and the Poetic Unconscious

Juxtaposition and Multidetermination

Metaphor, Metonymy and Signifying Practice

The "Soul" of Openness
Conclusion. Toward A Self-Conscious Open Poetics in Reading and Writing How Open Is A Literary Text?

Le Mot Juste and Endless Meaning
Hermeneutic Openness Is A Positive Thing

Notes

Works Cited

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Ming Dong Gu is Assistant Professor of Modern Languages at Rhodes College.