The Study of the Hermeneutic Traditions of East Asian Confucianism: Retrospect and Prospect

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The Study of the Hermeneutic Traditions of East Asian Confucianism: Retrospect and Prospect

Author

Chun-chieh, Huang

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145-200

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Abstract

　　This paper reviews the scholarship recounting the hermeneutic traditions of East Asian Confucianism over the past two decades. It also proposes some new agendas for research in the future.
　　This paper reviews the literature in the field and points out three major foci of cur- rent scholarship: (a). The types, characteristics and methods of the East Asian Confucian hermeneutics, (b). the interactions among power structure, political order and Confucian interpretations of classics, and (c). the development of Confucian hermeneutics in East Asia: indigenous resources and cross-cultural interpretations. The paper opens up three new directions for future study:
　　(a) The methodologies and interpretive strategies in the traditions of Confucian hermeneutics in East Asia;
　　(b) The characteristics exhibited in the traditions of Confucian hermeneutics in Easa Asia;
　　(c) The cosmology and world views of the East Asian Confucian traditions and the world of thought they constructed on the basis of their interpretations of clas- sics.

Keyword

East Asia, Confucianism, Classics, hermeneutics

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