“解放冲力”及其在当代社会的可能性——关于《马克思主义美学:日常生活中意识解放的基础》的讨论

The"Emancipatory Impact"and its Possibilities in Contemporary Society:Discussion on Marxist Aesthetics:The Foundations within Everyday Life for an Emancipated Consciousness

《马克思主义美学:日常生活中意识解放的基础》一书初版于1984年,针对佩里·安德森在《西方马克思主义探讨》中将马克思主义转向美学视为一战后无产阶级革命失败的产物这一观点,作者波琳·琼森认为安德森低估了马克思主义美学在社会主义社会目标的表达和异化个体解放层面的深刻意义。各种马克思主义美学理论对艺术作品解放冲力的研究共同追问着如何在被异化的日常生活中寻找意识变革的实践基础,这恰恰构成了马克思主义美学的传统。这本书也为20世纪80年代中国的美学讨论提供了独特视角。2011年该书修订再版,关于“日常生活”“审美需要”“意识解放”等理论与实践可能性的讨论对当代马克思主义美学研究仍具有重要意义。

The book Marxist Aesthetics:The Foundations within Everyday Life for an Emancipated Consciousness was first published in 1984.In response to Perry Anderson’s view that the Marxist turn to aesthetics was a product of the failed proletarian revolution after World War I.Pauline Jonson,in her Considerations on Western Marxism,argues that Anderson underestimates the profound significance of Marxist aesthetics in the expression of socialist social goals and the emancipation of alienated individuals.The various Marxist aesthetic theories of the emancipatory impulse of the work of art collectively ask how to find a practical basis for a change of consciousness in alienated everyday life.This,precisely,is what constitutes the tradition in Marxist aesthetics.In 2011,the book was revised and republished,and its discussions of"everyday life.""aesthetic needs"and"emancipation of consciousness"have provided a unique perspective for the aesthetic discussions in China in the 1980 s.The discussions of theoretical and practical possibilities are still important for contemporary Marxist aesthetics research.