The dysfunction of ritual in early Confucianism
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The dysfunction of ritual in early Confucianism
（Oxford ritual studies / series editors, Ronald Grimes, Ute Hüsken, Barry Stephenson）
Oxford University Press, c2012
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Bibliography: p. [263]-273
Includes index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
In The Dysfunction of Ritual in Early Confucianism Michael Ing describes how early Confucians coped with situations where their rituals failed to achieve their intended aims. In contrast to most contemporary interpreters of Confucianism, Ing demonstrates that early Confucian texts can be read as arguments for ambiguity in ritual failure. If, as discussed in one text, Confucius builds a tomb for his parents unlike the tombs of antiquity, and rains fall
causing the tomb to collapse, it is not immediately clear whether this failure was the result of random misfortune or the result of Confucius straying from the ritual script by building a tomb incongruent with those of antiquity. The Liji (Record of Ritual)-one of the most significant, yet least studied, texts of
Confucianism-poses many of these situations and suggests that the line between preventable and unpreventable failures of ritual is not always clear. Ritual performance, in this view, is a performance of risk. It entails rendering oneself vulnerable to the agency of others; and resigning oneself to the need to vary from the successful rituals of past, thereby moving into untested and uncertain territory. Ing's book is the first monograph in English about the Liji-a text that purports
to be the writings of Confucius' immediate disciples, and part of the earliest canon of Confucian texts called ''The Five Classics,'' included in the canon several centuries before the Analects. It challenges some common assumptions of contemporary interpreters of Confucian ethics-in particular the
assumption that a cultivated ritual agent is able to recognize which failures are within his sphere of control to prevent and thereby render his happiness invulnerable to ritual failure.
目次
- Conventions
- Introduction
- Chapter One: Ritual in the Liji
- Chapter Two: A Typology of Dysfunction
- Chapter Three: Coming to Terms with Dysfunction
- Chapter Four: Preventing
- Chapter Five: The Inevitability of Failure
- Chapter Six: Whose Fault is Failure? Ambiguity and Impinging Agencies
- Chapter Seven: The Ancients did not Fix Their Graves
- Chapter Eight: Productive Anxieties and the Awfulness of Failed Ritual
- Concluding Reflections: Toward a Tragic Theory of Ritual
- Appendix: On the Textual Composition of the Liji
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
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