美学的传入与本土创建的历史

The Introduction of Western Aesthetics and The Construction of Native History

美学在中国是西学东渐的产物,又是中西文化和学术碰撞、交融的成果。美学这门西学在被中国接受的过程中,必然被逐渐烙印上本土化的民族身份。美学在欧洲是“自发”的,它随着西学的东渐而舶来,刺激了“中国的”美学的“后发”。只有在西方这个“他者”镜像的比照下,中国美学方能获得自身的最初的内在定性。对西学的引进和误读、于本土的发展和建构,这两方面始终成为中国本土美学发展的两极张力。

Aesthetics is something introduced into China from the West on one hand, and a product of cultural and academic conflicts and integration between China and the West on the other. As a western discipline, aesthetics is naturally stamped with national identity of the natives during the process of its acceptance. It was spontaneously born in Europe, but as it was introduced into the east, it stimulated the later development of a Chinese aesthetics. Only when it is put before the mirror of the West as Other, can the Chinese aesthetics obtain its own original immanence. However, the introduction and misreading of western learning and the development and construction of native culture have always been the focuses of tension in the development of Chinese native aesthetics.