现代性与后现代性的照面——美学对大众文化的三种回应

Modernity vs.Post-modernity:the Three Responses of Aesthetics to Mass Culture

大众文化的崛起是现代性的重要表征,当代美学从不同理论视阈出发,做出肯定、否定、或是兼而有之的综合,演绎现代性美学和后现代性美学的双重变奏。阿多诺为代表的否定性美学,坚守传统的贵族精神,从精英主义的立场出发,批判大众文化,不仅维护古典艺术的高雅地位,也为现代主义艺术提供美学上的论证。舒斯特曼的实用主义美学,立足平民的立场,为大众文化辩护,具有后现代主义的特质。姚斯的接受美学调和二者的对立,克服二者的片面性,执两用中,在交往的基础上论证了当代审美文化。

The rise of mass culture is an important token of modernity. Modern aesthetics, starting from different visual threshold,covers two features of modernity and post-modernity of aesthetics. This paper discusses three attitudes of modern aesthetics toward mass culture,represented by Adorno,Shusterman, and Jauss,whose theories are analyzed in a detailed way respectively.