利奥塔对康德崇高理论的后现代发展——兼论中国文化为何缺乏崇高观念

Jean-Francois Lyotard and Kant's Sublime Theory in its Postmodern Development:Why Chinese Culture Lacks a Sublime Concept

"崇高"是利奥塔后现代思想的重要组成部分,利奥塔重新阐发了康德崇高理论中的"不可表现"、"否定表现"等概念,利奥塔的崇高理论目的在于以对"不可表现之物"的呈现来挑战总体性和抵抗非人的状况,崇高在艺术层面上表现为对形式本身的追求,在形式对意义的悬搁中和不断创新之中实现对"不可表现之物"的见证。利奥塔是在后现代的语境中来重新探讨崇高问题的,但却把康德崇高理论中理性、道德的内涵放逐了,这导致了后现代崇高走向虚无的可能。崇高是西方美学中的一个重要范畴,属西方文化形态,在中国文化观念中并没有西方之"崇高"范畴。

The sublime is an important concept in Lyotard＇s postmodern thoughts. Lyotard re--interprets the concepts of the unpresentable and the negative presentation in Kant＇s theory of the sublime. For Lyotard, the sublime is to presenting the unpresentable, which can challenge the totality and resist the in- human. With regard to art, the sublime pursues on the form and abandons the significance of the form, postmodern sublime to the nihility. Sublime is an important longs in the western culture type. In Chinese culture, there category in the western aesthetics, which be is no western concept of the sublime.