Comparative Poetics of East and West: Contradiction and Integration

Author: Yang Naiqiao
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Features: "Jing" (the canonical texts) and "Logos" constitute the centralism of poetic contexts in the East and West. In Western poetic cultural traditions, "Logos" originates in autonomous discourse and the meaning of presence; in Eastern Confucian poetic cultural traditions, "Jing" originates in autonomous discourse and the meaning of presence. "Jing" and "Logos" are preachers of cultural beliefs, initiators of linguistic violence, the ultimate beauty of speech, and cultural oppressors who metaphorically embody wisdom. In poetics, "Jing" is the truth in the ontological sense, and in Daoist poetics, "Dao" is also the truth in the ontological sense. Confucian poetics moves from the authenticity of "Jing" toward "seeking goodness," while Daoist poetics moves from the authenticity of "Dao" toward "aesthetics." The deconstructive strategy of Daoist poetics against "establishing discourse" subverts the centrism of Confucian poetics and its scriptural centrism, shifting poetic theory toward aesthetic theory. This aims to guide the deep-seated "seeking goodness" in Chinese poetic cultural traditions toward "aesthetics" through anti-centralism.