Die Renaissance in China und ihre Reconnaissance im Westen

Since 2022 Chinese Marxism is officially pushing for an integration of Marxist principles and Chinese traditional culture. This initiates a renaissance of Chinese classics and brings along an orthodox reading of their content. Western interpretations of Chinese classics are thus facing a new challenge. How can they shape their hermeneutics to maintain the conditions necessary for dialogue and cooperation with the new Chinese reading of the classics? Hans van Ess's philological-historical method and Benoît Vermander's rhetorical-anthropological method can potentially be considered as models. Both approaches, in different ways, refrain from direct philosophical interpretation in favor of falsifiable multi-level textual analysis so as to provide a scientific basis upon which philosophical interpretation can be debated upon in cross-civilizational dialogue.