| Titre | Penser par contraste. Critique du bouddhisme et stratégies discursives dans le Zhengmeng de Zhang Zai (1020-1078) | |
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| Auteur | Stéphane Feuillas | |
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Revue | Extrême-Orient, Extrême-Occident |
| Numéro | no 26, 2004 «De la difficulte de juger». Quelques ressources du mode critique en Chine et au Viêt Nam | |
| Rubrique / Thématique | II. Contrastes critiques |
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| Page | 89-116 | |
| Résumé anglais |
Thinking through Contrasting. The Critic of Buddhism and the Textual Strategies in Zhang Zai's Zhengmeng (1020-1078)
The object of this article is to reveal how the pervasiveness of Buddhist phraseology in the 11th century led Zhang Zai, one of the promoters of « Neo-confucianism » to develop original strategies for a new reading of the Confucian Classics. Taking into account the contamination of Chan Buddhist reflection at every level (be it familial, social or textual), Zhang Zai not only produces a critical discourse (which he deems partly inefficient) against such and such a doctrine, but starts from his contemporaries' intellectual alienation in order to liberate them from their ignorance, and, through subtle lexical adjustments,
prepares the theoretical and textual conditions for tradition to be
re-appropriated. In so doing, Zhang Zai devises various textual procedures to counter the general confusion as well as the Buddhist appropriation of the main notions of early Confucianism. He resorts to extensive quotations, binomes and parallelisms, thereby drawing a philosophical effect from the device of contrast. In this type of speech, meaning is radically contextualised and notions dissolved, becoming dimensions. This critical discourse should therefore not be interpreted locally according to a preconception against such and such a doctrine : it is a global mode of reading, which should be operative at all times when reading Zhang Zai's main work, «Discipline for Beginners» (Zhengmeng). Source : Éditeur (via Persée) |
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| Article en ligne | http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/oroc_0754-5010_2004_num_26_26_1213 |
