20世纪美国美学的发展脉络及其热点问题

The History and the Hotspot of American Aesthetics in 20th Century

20世纪美国美学的发展经历了四个历史阶段,分析美学一直是其主流。艺术的定义问题贯穿整个20世纪美国美学发展的各个历史阶段,今天仍然是美国学界最热烈争论的核心问题。虽然自20世纪20世纪80年代起,美国分析美学出现了向"新实用主义"转向、合流的新趋势,但总的来讲,"新实用主义"要蔚然成风并进而取代分析美学的霸主地位还有相当长的路要走。

The history of 20th century＇s American Aesthetics is shaped by four stages, in which analytic aesthetics is the mainstream. The question of the definition of art goes through the whole history of American aesthetics in 20th Century and is still the hotspot of scholars＇ attention today. Although American analytic aesthetics has showed a trend of combination with new pragmatism since 1980s, the new pragmatism needs to go a long way to replace the analytic aesthetics in America.