The Reception Aesthetics And The Xiang Thought: The Sinicization Of The Reception Aesthetics

This thesis has two volumes besides the introduction and the conclusion. The first volume is entitled Contending and Harmony, which has three chapters and mainly makes a discussion on theories, the titles of the chapters are On the Xiang Thought, Brief Discuss on the Reception Aesthetics, The Reception Aesthetics and the Xiang Thought; the second volume is entitled Merging and Developing, which has two chapters that are exemplifications about two typical phenomena of reception and went on with the research about the merging of the Reception Aesthetics and the Xiang Thought. The titles of the chapters are On the Reception of Yi Jing by Yi Zhuan, On the Reception of Zhuang Zi by Li Bai's Poems.The introduction made a brief introduction of the development of research, academic background and value, and separately lined out the methods and clues of the two volumes, including the collection and the organization of concerned texts.The first chapter On the Xiang Thought mainly introduced the theoretical system of Xiang Thought. The first section was entitled The Original Self: The Concept and the Conception Thought, which made a brief introduction about the basic concepts and history of the Conception Thought. The second section was entitled The Thriving Xiang: The Original Xiang and the Xiang Thought, which made a brief description about the noumenon of the Xiang Thought. The third section was entitled The Entirely Intuition: The Way of Thought of the Xiang Thought, which probed into the entirely intuition and the oblivion of language, and outlined the way of thought of the Xiang Thought. The fourth section was entitled All Ways Lead to Tao: The Inclusiveness of the Xiang Thought, which found the incising point of the saying in Zhou Yi,"all ways wound turn back", and summarized the relationship between the Xiang Thought and the Conception Thought.The second chapter Brief Discuss on the Reception Aesthetics mainly combed the basic concepts and the philosophical foundation of the Reception Aesthetic, in order to find out the real integrated point. The first section was entitled The Reception Aesthetics: An Open Theoretical System, which introduced the background and the history of Reception Aesthetics in the west. The second section was entitled The Expectation Horizon: The Dimension of the Reader, which discussed the category of the Expectation Horizon, and introduced the theory of the two poles by Iser. The third section was entitled The Appalling Construction: The View on the Texts by the Reception Aesthetics, which mainly made a scrape about the view on the texts by the Reception Aesthetics, especially the five strata theories by Ingarden. The fourth section was entitled The Conversation and Communication: The Integration of Life and the Cycle of Hermeneutics, which made a study on the integration and interpretation of the reception phenomenon.The third chapter The Reception Aesthetics and the Xiang Thought mainly introduced the history of the dissemination, research and the merging of the Reception Aesthetics in China. The first section was entitled A Brief Introduction: The History of the Sinicization of the Reception Aesthetics, which introduced the translation, research and critics of the Reception Aesthetics. The second section was entitled A Retrospection: The Sinicization of the Reception Aesthetics, which discussed three questions: Whether or not should we sinicize the Reception Aesthetics? Is it possible to sinicize it? How? The answers were clear: it should, it could, with the integration of the Xiang Thought. The third section was entitled The Consciousness: The Taking Form of the Theoretical System of the Xiang Thought, which introduced the history of the Theoretical System of the Xiang Thought in China. The fourth section was entitled Integration: The Reception Aesthetics and the Xiang Thought, which focused on the integration points and the final extent of the two theories. After all, the sinicization of the Reception Aesthetics must realize the profound integration with the Xiang Thought, and must take effect in the critical practices.The fourth chapter On the Reception of Yi Jing by Yi Zhuan made a further elucidation on the merging of the sinicization of the Reception Aesthetics through the study into the reception of the Yi Jing by Yi Zhuan. The first section was entitled Equality to the Nature: Yi Jing As a Reception Text, which outlined the view on the relationship between the Jing and Zhuan in history and combed the way of existence of Yi Jing as a reception text. The second section was entitled The Thriving Yi: The Reception of Zhou Yi in the Stratum of Meaning, which introduced the reception of Zhou Yi in the ontological stratum. The third section was entitled Xiang As the Best Exemplification of Meaning: The Reception of Zhou Yi in the Stratum of Xiang, which studied the construction of Xiang and Digits in the process of reception. The fourth section was entitled Accordance to Language: The Reception of Zhou Yi in the Stratum of Language, which reconstructed the structure of the reception of Zhou Yi in the stratum of language. From the meaning to the language, a hermeneutic cycle was formed and an integral reception phenomenon had taken shape.The fifth chapter On the Reception of Zhuang Zi by Li Bai's Poems studied the two most typical literature works and made a deep research into the reception of them. The first section was entitled The Language Without Language: The Zhuang Zi As A Reception Text, which outlined the text of Zhuang Zi in the strata of language, Xiang and meaning. The second section was entitled Oriented and Creating: The Expectations On Zhuang Zi By Li Bai, which discussed the three causes of the Expectations On Zhuang Zi By Li Bai, and introduced the two sorts of expectations of Li Bai. The third section was entitled Paw Prints On the Mud: The Direct Reception of Zhuang Zi by Li Bai, which described the direct reception of Zhuang Zi by Li Bai with his poems as evidences. In conclusion, the specialties of the direct reception are integral, mobile and intuitive. The fourth section was entitled The Historical Chain: The Inirect Reception of Zhuang Zi by Li Bai, which put the reception of Zhuang Zi by Li Bai into a historical chain and made an overall speculation on the reception phenomenon. The conclusion summarized the whole thesis and made a further prospect on this topic.