文本的类型、视位与意会认知

The Limits of Interpretation

张江教授提出的中国阐释学,至少是想做如下事情:一方面摆脱典籍式的沉重负担;另一方面摆脱后殖民话语中我们成为西方话语的一种简单传递者的情况。其初衷旨在,有没有一种突破,来构建一种中国原创性的方法论话语。就“阐释的限度”以及我今天的发言主题来讲,第一点谈谈文本。“文本”是我多年前提出的一个观点,因为那时解释学方法论在国内已经传播得比较广泛了。但是我理解的解释和阐释,如果从伽达默尔原有的思路来讲,其关注点在主体层面,即读者或接受者面对文本的过程。

From its beginning,interpretation has been a creative process of subjective intervention.It managed to become a field of study not because of simple textual reiteration,but rather because of the huge space of meaning it opens up in the text.However,as in all fields of thought,in the absence of external rules the exercise of subjectivity will eventually cross over the boundary of public understanding and become a purely private conundrum.Without certain rules,no field of study can stand.If interpretation floats rootlessly in the stream of consciousness,hermeneutics will be untenable.In terms of theory,Heidegger once said that the problem is not to avoid the circle,but to come into it in the right way.I fear that infinite unbounded interpretation may not be the right way.China has a long interpretive tradition,seen in liujing zhu wo(the six classics footnote my thoughts)or wo zhu liujing(I footnote the six classics).”In the Chinese tradition,it is the boundaries that each defines that make the dialogue between text and interpreter a meaningful circle.Today’s Chinese scholars retain their own unique reflections and exploration of the boundaries and limits of interpretation.To conduct in-depth research on the basic theoretical issues of hermeneutics and promote the construction of a contemporary Chinese hermeneutic discourse system,Social Sciences in China Press invited well-known domestic scholars to provide in-depth discussion of“the limits of interpretation”focusing on the boundaries,limits and certainties of interpretation.We selected for publication the revised presentations of Professor Zhang Yibing from Nanjing University,Professor Chen Jiaying from Capital Normal University and Professor Sun Zhouxing from Tongji University.