宗白华美学与德国生命哲学

Zong Baihua's Aesthetics and German Life Philosophy

宗白华的生命美学观受 2 0世纪德国生命哲学的深刻影响 ,主要集中在对艺术与生命美学、艺术与技术理性等问题的思考上。在美学观上 ,他将“生命”一词作为美学研究的逻辑起点 ,进一步对审美体验、艺术想像等美学当中的核心范畴加以分析。面对科技理性给现代人带来的精神危机 ,他认为只有艺术地陶冶心性才能解决。宗白华生命美学观的独特之处在于 ,它建立在中国传统生命哲学的基础上并对西方生命哲学加以整合而成。

Zong Baihua's life aesthetics theory, remarkably influen ced by the 20t h century's German life philosophy, mainly concentrates on the considerations of arts and life, aesthetics, and arts and technical rationality. Concerning his a esthetics theory, he takes the word 'life' as his logical starting point to ex p lode aesthetics and further more makes analysis on the cores of aesthetics, i.e. aesthetic experience, artistic imagination, etc. When modern people confront sp iritual crisis brought by scientific and technological rationality, he believes that the crisis can be resolved only by means of aesthetically molding a person' s temperament. The special feature of Zong Baihua's life aesthetics theory is th at based on China's traditional life philosophy, and integrated with western lif e philosophy comes his theory.