20 avril 2023
https://www.openedition.org/12554 , info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
Michael D. K. Ing, « The Liji and a tragic theory of ritual », Collège de France, ID : 10.4000/books.cdf.12973
This article will draw from three parts of the Liji 《禮記》 in an attempt to construct an early Confucian theory of ritual. This theory, in short, depicts a tragic consciousness experienced in ritual performance where ritual agents cope with vulnerability, ambiguity, and rupture with the past. In constructing this theory, I will refer to and build on a larger project that I published as a book entitled The Dysfunction of Ritual in Early Confucianism. My purpose in this article is to demonstrate ...