审美的现代探索历程与精神反思——读《现代西方审美主义思潮与文学》

Modern Exploration Course and Spiritual Reflection of Aesthetics: A Review on Modern Western Aestheticism and Literature

顾梅珑新著《现代西方审美主义思潮与文学》紧扣审美主义思潮与社会文化的关系,从宏观和微观两个层面细致梳理了它充满矛盾与悖论的发展轨迹,在全面把握审美主义特质的基础上,多方面探索了审美现代性对启蒙现代性的纠偏作用以及它在文学层面的种种表现。专著贯穿着强烈的问题意识,浸润于文学个案分析、审美主义本身的困境阐释,在对时代背景和社会现实的观照中,不仅展示出审美思潮文学中的表现,还为现实人生提供了建构性参考。著者将严谨的学术思考与深厚的人文情怀密切结合,在对审美主义思潮的探索与展望中为现代人的审美困境寻找出路,体现出当代优秀学者的社会责任感和使命感。

Gu Meilong’ s new book Modern Western Aestheticism and Literature is closely related to the relationship between aestheticism and social culture, and carefully sorts out the development track from the macroscopic view and the microscopic view, which is full of contradictions and paradoxes. On the basis of comprehensively grasping the characteristics of aestheticism, she explores the corrective effect of aesthetic modernity on enlightenment modernity and its various manifestations at the literary level. A strong sense of problem runs through the monograph, which is embodied in the analyses of literary cases and the interpretation of the dilemma of aestheticism, as well as in the scrutinizing contemplation of historical background and social reality. The monograph not only shows literary phenomenon of modern aesthetics, but also offers its constructive references for the realistic value. The writer combines rigorous academic thinking with profound humanistic concern in the exploration and prospect of aestheticism, which aims to find a way out for the aesthetic predicament of modern people, and reflects the social responsibility and the sense of mission of outstanding contemporary scholars.