当代中国语境中的审美意识形态理论

The Theory of Aesthetic Ideology in Contemporary Chinese Context

在审美与意识形态问题上,尽管马克思提出了问题,但他并没有进行系统的论述和表达。自卢卡契以来,审美意识形态理论成为当代马克思主义美学的重要内容。由于文艺形象和审美经验的矛盾叠合性与复杂性,中国马克思主义美学的基本问题和理论指向在于审美意识形态的现代作用问题,即在阐释当代大众文化的审美意义基础上研究文学艺术与意识形态的特殊关系。本文认为,应该在具体的审美关系基础上深入研究日常生活所产生的审美需要及其特殊的表达机制,从学理上阐释审美意识形态问题。

Marx had to some extent discussed the problems of aesthetics and ideology in some of his works but did not give a systematic theorization on them. Since Lucacs, Marxists of various sorts have furthered their discussion on the Marxian issues making the theory of aesthetic ideology the main part of contemporary Marxist aesthetics. Because of the complexity and inconsistency in literary and artistic images and the aesthetic experiences, the Chinese Marxist aesthetics takes the modern function of aesthetic ideology as its basic issue and theoretical orientation, that is, to study the special relation between ideology and literature/art on the basis of interpreting the aesthetic significance of contemporary mass culture. This paper argues that it is necessary to deepen our study on everyday life and its aesthetic demand, as well as its particular expression born out of it.