Poetic Wisdom of Language (Collected Works of Ma Qinzhong on Philosophical Language and Culture)

Author: Ma Qinzhong
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Publish Date: 2004-12-01
Features: The book consists of three parts. The first part explores the necessity of distinguishing between factual and value issues in cultural exchange and research; it focuses on the establishment of the value foundation of Chinese culture, especially in the context where Western humanities research is increasingly tending toward "poeticization," the value foundation of Chinese culture demonstrates its vitality. The second part discusses the individual characteristics and humanistic responsibilities of artists as intellectuals, analyzing and contrasting the different cultural perspectives on music and mathematics between ancient China and ancient Greece. The third part is the core of the book. It employs Western linguistic philosophy, linguistic culture, and hermeneutics, combined with Chinese textualology, etymology, and phonology, using Chinese characters as a medium, to propose the concept of "synchronic culture" in Chinese cultural tradition. It elaborates on the social formation of the "synchronic culture" tradition, which tends toward "antiquity" in temporal tradition and "centrality" in spatial transmission, and from an important perspective, argues the cultural and social functions of the poetic wisdom of language.