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The Dysfunction of Ritual in Early Confucianism (Paperback)
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The Dysfunction of Ritual in Early Confucianism (Paperback)
Series: Oxford Ritual Studies Series
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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.
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