The Gadamerian discourse in China and the fusion of aesthetic realms

Rošker, Jana S. (author)

Based on comparative philosophical methodology, this paper presents a new hermeneutic method for interpreting Chinese (especially ancient Chinese) texts. It first introduces the rich tradition of Chinese hermeneutics and then analyses its possible dialogues with European hermeneutic methods, especially Gadamer’s “fusion of horizons”. It identifies some methodological problems inherent in this method and, on this basis, proposes the application of a new hermeneutic method that may be more suitable for the interpreta-tion of traditional Chinese metaphysical and literary texts. It is based on the tradition-al philosophical-aesthetic notion of jingjie境界. The author preliminarily refers to this method as a “fusion of aesthetic realms”.

• Language: English
• Keywords: Gadamer, Zhuangzi, jingjie, fusion of horizons, fusion of aesthetic realms, hermeneutics, transcultural hermeneutics
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: FF - Faculty of Arts
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Publication date: 01.01.2023
• Year: 2023
• Number of pages: Str. 299-316
• Numbering: Vol. 11 (27), iss. 1
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-143865
• UDC: 1(510)
• ISSN on article: 2232-5131
• DOI: 10.4312/as.2023.11.1.299-316
• COBISS.SI-ID: 137969923
• Publication date in RUL: 16.01.2023

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Asian studies
• Publisher: Znanstvena založba Filozofske fakultete, Znanstvena založba Filozofske fakultete, Založba Univerze v Ljubljani
• ISSN: 2232-5131
• COBISS.SI-ID: 265206272

Licences

• License: CC BY-SA 4.0, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International
• Link: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
• Description: This Creative Commons license is very similar to the regular Attribution license, but requires the release of all derivative works under this same license.
• Licensing start date: 10.01.2023

Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Title: Gadamerijanski diskurz na Kitajskem in zlitje estetskih sfer

Abstract

Prispevek na podlagi primerjalne filozofske metodologije predstavlja novo hermenevtično metodo za interpretacijo kitajskih (zlasti starokitajskih) besedil. Najprej predstavi bogato tradicijo kitajske hermenevtike, nato pa analizira njene možne dialoge z evropskimi her-menevtičnimi metodami, zlasti z Gadamerjevo metodo »zlitja obzorij«. Potem prikaže določene metodološke probleme, ki so prisotni v tej metodi, in na tej podlagi predlaga uporabo nove hermenevtične metode, ki bi lahko bila primernejša za interpretacijo tradi-cionalnih kitajskih metafizičnih in literarnih besedil. Temelji na tradicionalnem filozof-sko-estetskem pojmovanju koncepta jingjie境界. Avtorica to metodo preliminarno poi-menuje s frazo »zlitje estetskih sfer«.

• Keywords: Gadamer, Zhuangzi, jingjie, zlitje obzorij, zlitje estetskih sfer, hermenevtika, transkulturna hermenevtika, estetska sfera

Projects

• Funder: ARRS - Slovenian Research Agency
• Project number: N6-0161
• Name: Humanizem v medkulturni perspektivi: Evropa in Kitajska

• Funder: ARRS - Slovenian Research Agency
• Project number: P6-0243
• Name: Azijski jeziki in kulture