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This volume is devoted to studying the emergence and flourishing of new humanistically informed developments in philosophical hermeneutics within contemporary Chinese philosophy.

Table of Contents
Part I.General Introduction, Chung-ying Cheng.

Part II.Editor’s Introduction, Lauren F. Pfister.

Part III: Basic Chinese Philosophical Orientations about Understanding.

1. Toward Constructing a Dialectics of Harmonization: Harmony and Conflict in Chinese Philosophy, Chung-ying Cheng.

2. Hermeneutic Explorations in the Zhuangzi, Kuang-ming Wu.

Part IV: Confucius, the Analects, and Early Confucianism.

3. Gadamer and Confucius: Some Possible Affinities, Richard E. Palmer.

4. A New Hermeneutical Approach to Early Chinese Texts: The Case of the Analects, John Makeham.

5. Three Kinds of Confucian Scholarship, Kelly James Clark.

Part V: Zhu Xi: Textual and Philosophical Understanding.

6. On Zhu Xi’s Theory of Interpretation, Pan Derong and Peng Qifu.

7. To Catch a Thief: Zhu Xi (1130-1200) and the Hermeneutic Art, John Berthrong

Hermeneutical Thinking in Chinese Philosophy

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      Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
      Publication Date: 12/06/2007
      ISBN13: 9781405167895, 978-1405167895
      ISBN10: 1405167890
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      East Asian and Indian philosophy

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      This volume is devoted to studying the emergence and flourishing of new humanistically informed developments in philosophical hermeneutics within contemporary Chinese philosophy.

      Table of Contents
      Part I.General Introduction, Chung-ying Cheng.

      Part II.Editor’s Introduction, Lauren F. Pfister.

      Part III: Basic Chinese Philosophical Orientations about Understanding.

      1. Toward Constructing a Dialectics of Harmonization: Harmony and Conflict in Chinese Philosophy, Chung-ying Cheng.

      2. Hermeneutic Explorations in the Zhuangzi, Kuang-ming Wu.

      Part IV: Confucius, the Analects, and Early Confucianism.

      3. Gadamer and Confucius: Some Possible Affinities, Richard E. Palmer.

      4. A New Hermeneutical Approach to Early Chinese Texts: The Case of the Analects, John Makeham.

      5. Three Kinds of Confucian Scholarship, Kelly James Clark.

      Part V: Zhu Xi: Textual and Philosophical Understanding.

      6. On Zhu Xi’s Theory of Interpretation, Pan Derong and Peng Qifu.

      7. To Catch a Thief: Zhu Xi (1130-1200) and the Hermeneutic Art, John Berthrong

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