Hermeneutical Thinking in Chinese Philosophy

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