The Tao and the Logos
Literary Hermeneutics, East and West
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5151106 |
|---|---|
| Authors | H Saussy (0000-0002-5220-5062), Zhang Longxi (0000-0001-9268-6641) |
| Year | 1994 |
| Volume | 114 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 328 |
| Publication date | 1994-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of the American Oriental Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0003-0279 • E-ISSN: 2169-2289 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/605883 |
| OpenAlex | W2322734264 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 17 |
Questions of the nature of understanding and interpretation—hermeneutics—are fundamental in human life, though historically Westerners have tended to consider these questions within a purely Western context. In this comparative study, Zhang Longxi investigates the metaphorical nature of poetic language, highlighting the central figures of reality and meaning in both Eastern and Western thought: the Tao and the Logos. The author develops a powerful cross-cultural and interdisciplinary hermeneutic analysis that relates individual works of literature not only to their respective cultures, but to a combined worldview where East meets West. Zhang's book brings together philosophy and literature, theory and practical criticism, the Western and the non-Western in defining common ground on which East and West may come to a mutual understanding. He provides commentary on the rich traditions of poetry and poetics in ancient China; equally illuminating are Zhang's astute analyses of Western poets such as Rilke, Shakespeare, and Mallarme and his critical engagement with the work of Foucault, Derrida, and de Man, among others. Wide-ranging and learned, this definitive work in East-West comparative poetics and the hermeneutic tradition will be of interest to specialists in comparative literature, philosophy, literary theory, poetry and poetics, and Chinese literature and history
Art · Epistemology · Hermeneutics · Literature · Logos Bible Software · Theology · Chinese history and philosophy · History · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Philosophy · Translation Studies and Practices
Hallucination and Coherence
Cross-cultural Translatability
Presenting the Past
The Babel Fallacy
A Self-Reflexive Praxis
The Complexity of Difference
Language, Truth, and Literary Interpretation
Language, forms, prosody, and themes
Silla writings in Chinese
Perpetual Unease or Being at Ease? \-\- Derrida, Daoism, and the 'Metaphysics of Presence'
Scientia sexualis versus ars erotica
Out of the Margins
Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Daoist Thought
Intellectual Captivity
Fontes da História das Ideias Linguísticas na China
British Romanticism in Asia, 1820–1950
Authorship and Cultural Identity in Early Greece and China
| Unique citing works | 17 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,63 |
| Citation span | 1999 - 2021 (23) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 10 |