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East Asian Languages and Societies

Journal

2018

Issue in Focus: Hermeneutics Studies

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The Energeia And Image In The Thought Of Gadamer In His Late Years, Lijun Sun May 2018

The Energeia And Image In The Thought Of Gadamer In His Late Years, Lijun Sun

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

The concept of energeia is the up-to-date thought in Gadamer's old age, which is also philosophical hermeneutics' upto-date contribution to ontology. The energeia means the force in the development of being. According to the philosophical hermeneutics, being can be divides into three grades: the chaos, the being, and the transformation from chaos to the being. In the transformation from chaos to the being, it is the energeia that makes it happen. The essence of the image is that it is the way of chaos transformation into the being. At the same time, the image preserves the energeia which drives the …


Theory About The Essence Of Literature From The Perspective Of Ontology, Zhongyuan Wang May 2018

Theory About The Essence Of Literature From The Perspective Of Ontology, Zhongyuan Wang

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

Under the background of deconstructionism, contemporary literary anti-essentialism has posed questions such as: what is the theory about the essence of literature and how does it become possible? To answer these questions, one needs to study the connotation and possibility of theories about the essence of literature from an ontological perspective. The essence of literature refers to the being of literature. The theory about the essence of literature is thus the theoretical interpretation of being of literature, which is also the primary subject of literary studies and the metatheory of literary theory. The ontological area on which the theory about …


Critique Of "Aesthetic Non-Differentiation" Thought: Reflections And Transcendence In The Early Gadamer's Aesthetics, Jianhua Xiao May 2018

Critique Of "Aesthetic Non-Differentiation" Thought: Reflections And Transcendence In The Early Gadamer's Aesthetics, Jianhua Xiao

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

There are two backgrounds when the concept of "aesthetic non-differentiation" is put forward. The background of thought is critique of Kant's subjective aesthetics and its successors, such as genius aesthetics and experience aesthetics. The real background of art practice is the critique of the so-called "museum-style art". The theoretical essence of "aesthetic non-differentiation" is the emphasis on the unity and non-differentiation of the whole life world and ontological truth as a representation of the life world. The directly and mainly theoretical source of "aesthetic non-differentiation" is Heidegger's ontological thought. The misreading of Heidegger's ontological aesthetics causes some theoretical defects in …