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題 名 | Discourse of the Body and Sexuality: Neo-Confucianism and Eroticism in Ming Culture |
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作 者 | Liu,Kang; | 書刊名 | Tamkang Review |
卷 期 | 26:4 民85.夏 |
頁 次 | 頁65-89 |
分類號 | 820.906 |
關鍵詞 | Li Xue; Ethics; Sexuality; Sensibility; Cultural transformation; Xin xue; Aesthetics; Subjectivity; Cultural history; |
語 文 | 英文(English) |
英文摘要 | This essay explores the “other side,” perhaps the (officially) repressed side, of Song (宋) and Ming (明) Neo-Confucianism. While the lixue (理學) or “philosophy of principle” of the Song thinker Zhu Xi (朱熹) serves as apotheosis of the Confucian order by making of ethical subjectivity a metaphysical absolute, the Ming thinker Wang Yangming’s (王陽明) xin xue (心學) (“philosophy of mind/heart”) can be read as an effort to revitalize the neo-Confucian order of li (理)-principle by grounding it in the more fundamental and more encompassing notion of xin (心), taking xin not as (the abstract Confucian principle of) “mind/heart” but as “physical heart” (“feeling,” “sensuality”), in close conjunction with the terms ti and shen (“body,” “embodiment”). Such a reading of Wang’s philosophical text is reinforced by the overtly erotic character of much popular literature and art in the Ming period, epitomized by the Ruo Putuan (肉蒲團), which tends to parody the sacrosanct Confucian philosophy by linking it to that baleful “lower stratum” of the body sexuality. The crucial but neglected historical link between Song li xue and Ming xin xue may be best explored through a close reading of the Ming “aesthetic” discourses of physical pleasure. |
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