Confucianism lecture "Four things the Master cut short", February 1

Tuesday, February 1, 2022 - 18:00-20:00 - Maison de la Recherche - Auditorium Georges Dumézil / and online

Event in hybrid format.

To attend the conference in person:
Maison de la Recherche - Auditorium Georges Dumézil
Inalco, 2 rue de Lille, 75007
Free admission on presentation of health pass.
Mask required.

"Four things the Master cut short"

How did a text from Entretiens IX, 4 come, through various readings, to mean something?

by Stéphane Feuillas, Professor of Classical Chinese Literature and Philosophy at the University of Paris, member at CRCAO

Summary
As Western and Chinese studies on the status of Confucian texts have shown, one of the main characteristics of a classic is to be associated with commentaries and to become such through commentaries. Yang Xiong 揚雄 (53 B.C.-18), one of the leading scholars of the late Western Han dynasty, when asked in his imitative work on the Confucian Talks,The Model Proposals(Fayan 法言), whether a classic could be amplified or diminished, clearly replied that precisely, the nature of a classic text is to withstand such operations of correction and expansion. In other words, a classic is not exactly established either in its textual form or in its actual meaning.
The aim of this talk will be, through a close reading of a short passage from the Lunyu 論語, IX, 4, to show the plasticity of the classic text and decipher some of the hermeneutical procedures and historical impasses that have made possible the constant renewal of the meaning and very texture of the words attributed to Confucius. I will study how the readings of various dynasties inscribed in different scholarly traditions modify and rewrite in the classical text.

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