“披文入情”说与“视域融合”理论之比较——中国古典文学阐释理论与西方解释学的对话

Comparison between the Theory of “Reasonable Explanation” and “Fusion of Horizons”: A Dialogue between the Interpretation Theory of Chinese Classical Literature and Western Hermeneutics

"披文入情"说是刘勰在《文心雕龙·知音》篇中提出的一种文学阐释方法与理论,主张依托文本探求作者的情志,体现了中国古典的诗学阐释观;"视域融合"是伽达默尔探讨理解活动本质的解释学理论,将读者视域与作者视域的融合视为理解的过程与实质。这两种阐释理论体现了中西解释学思想的不同特点,分别从微观与宏观的角度对它们进行比较研究,反思二者在理论上的合理性与局限性有利于取长补短,促进中西解释学的交流与对话,构建更加科学合理的解释学美学。

"Reasonable explanation" is a literary interpretation method and theory proposed by Liu Xie in the article Carving a Dragon at the Core of Literature: Bosom Friend, which advocates exploring the author′s emotion relying on the text and embodies the Chinese classical poetics interpretation;and "fusion of horizons" is Gadamer′s hermeneutic theory to explore the nature of activities, which regards the fusion of reader′s vision and author′s vision as the process and essence of understanding. These two explanatory theories embody the different characteristics of Chinese and Western hermeneutics. To make a comparative study of them from the perspectives of micro and macro, and then reflect on their rationality and limitations in theory is conducive for the two theories to learn from each other, in order to promote the communication and dialogue between Chinese and western hermeneutics, and further to construct a more scientific and reasonable hermeneutic aesthetics.