韦尔施美学的“审美化”概念

The Concept of Aestheticization of Wolfgang Welsch

在当前关于日常生活审美化的讨论中,德国后现代美学家沃尔夫冈.韦尔施的名字出现频率较高,他的理论被当作肯定或倡导日常生活审美化的西方权威而受到高度重视。然而韦尔施对日常生活审美化所采取的态度是批判性的,他的理论不仅不能为中国美学当前严重的实用主义倾向提供任何证明,相反,我们看到了他对伦理学和认识论等纵深层次审美化的论证。“审美化”概念涉及到韦尔施美学的审美中断、盲点文化、艺术的双重结构和重构美学等问题;作为比照,我们同时也看到了中西“后学”之间的真正差距。

The German post-modern aesthetician Wolfgang Welsch is frequently mentioned in the discussion of everyday life aestheticization; his theory is highly respected as the Western authority in the affirmation or advocation of everyday life aestheticization. However, Welsch adopts a critical attitude towards everyday life aestheticization. His theory does not prove the seriously pragmatistic tendency in the modern aesthetics in China; on the contrary, it proves aestheticization on the layers of ethnics and epistemology. Centering on the concept of aestheticization, this paper explores the issues of aesthetics interruption, cultural blind-spots, dual structure in art, and aesthetics restmcturation. In contrast, the real distance between the Western and Chinese modern aesthetics will also be revealed.