{"product_id":"the-tao-and-the-logos-literary-hermeneutics-east-and-west-9780822312185","title":"The Tao and the Logos: Literary Hermeneutics, East and West","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Longxi Zhang\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Duke University Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Duke University Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Asian - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eQuestions of the nature of understanding and interpretation-hermeneutics-are fundamental in human life, though historically Westerners have tended to consider these questions within a purely Western context. In this comparative study, Zhang Longxi investigates the metaphorical nature of poetic language, highlighting the central figures of reality and meaning in both Eastern and Western thought: the Tao and the Logos. The author develops a powerful cross-cultural and interdisciplinary hermeneutic analysis that relates individual works of literature not only to their respective cultures, but to a combined worldview where East meets West.\u003cbr\u003eZhang's book brings together philosophy and literature, theory and practical criticism, the Western and the non-Western in defining common ground on which East and West may come to a mutual understanding. He provides commentary on the rich traditions of poetry and poetics in ancient China; equally illuminating are Zhang's astute analyses of Western poets such as Rilke, Shakespeare, and Mallarm� and his critical engagement with the work of Foucault, Derrida, and de Man, among others.\u003cbr\u003eWide-ranging and learned, this definitive work in East-West comparative poetics and the hermeneutic tradition will be of interest to specialists in comparative literature, philosophy, literary theory, poetry and poetics, and Chinese literature and history.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47591852605591,"sku":"9780822312185","price":3672.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780822312185.webp?v=1774974833","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-tao-and-the-logos-literary-hermeneutics-east-and-west-9780822312185","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}