隐喻与诠释——诗的诠释学美学意义解读

Metaphor and Interpretation in the Theory of Chinese Poetry:A Hermeneutic-Aesthetic Approach

本文以当代诠释学美学的观点,探讨中国诗学以诗作为意义之理解与解释,所隐含之隐喻的诠释学与美学的问题,尤其诗学中有关隐喻的认知、理解与解释的作用。本文首先讨论诗与诠释的美学问题,探讨孔子所谓的"言诗"和孟子所谓的"说诗"所隐含的有关以诗作为意义之理解与解释之隐喻的诠释学与美学的问题。其次,探讨诗的诠释学美学的意义,指出当代哲学美学除了一方面重新对美与艺术的概念提出定义的解释外,另一方面则以所提出的艺术或美学理论作为解释意义的方法,亦即以美学为方法,作为解释存在意义的理论基础。不过,本文的主旨并不在于套用西方美学的研究成果来解释中国传统的经典或文献意义,而是从当代美学尤其是诠释学的角度,从中国传统文献所遗留之文字片段,来理解中国以诗作为艺术存在的解释意义的方式以及其中所隐含的美学问题的向度。

This paper aims to investigate the hermeneutic and aesthetic meanings of metaphor in the theory of Chinese poetry,focusing on the concept of poetry as a way of knowing,understanding and interpretation.Instead of transplanting the conceptual framework of Western aesthetics as to interpret the philological meanings implied in classical Chinese literature,this paper discusses the hermeneutic-aesthetic problematic of poetry,as presented in Chinese literary thought in the classical texts or literary documents,such as the aesthetic concern of 'discourse on poetry' in Confucius' idea of yanshi and that of Mencius' shuoshi.With our hermeneutic-aesthetics approach,we will deal with the big aesthetic questions asked by contemporary hermeneutics,as well as the issues of 'understanding and interpretation,' 'transmission/creation(shu/zuo)','poetry as metaphor'…etc.,in the theory of Chinese poetry.