在“解构”与“重构”之间——美学命运之思

Between “De-construction” and “Re-construction”——About the Fate of Aesthetics

两千多年来的西方美学经历了从"有美无学"到"有美有学"再到"有学无美"以至当下企图彻底"消解美学"的演变过程,呈现出解构与重构不断交替的发展轨迹。其间形成了某些基本的趋势,如在美的本原问题上由实体论转变为非实体性的生成论,在审美活动性能上由他律论经自律论而演进为自律与他律相结合的取向,以及美学学科自身由"形而上学"的一分支转向"形上"与"形下"两个方面的互渗,这些都是值得注意的历史经验。中国现代美学学科建设是在接受西方美学的基础上开始自己的行程的,百年之中也经历了多次解构与重构的交替,有自己独特的处境与问题,而今面临新一轮的抉择。当立足于本土实际,大力开发民族传统的思想精华,广泛吸取美学史上的经验教训,为美学学科的今后发展开辟广阔的前景。

A history of Western aesthetics in more than two thousand years has experienced a process until today＇s attempt to thoroughly ＂dispel aesthetics＂, and forms a developing trace of alternative de- construction and re-construction. In such a process, there form some basic and noticeable trends. The modern Chinese aesthetics as a discipline was on the basis of Western aesthetics since its very beginning, and also experienced an alternative de-construction and re-construction in the past hundred years. It is necessary to open a new prospect on the basis of native reality and the best ideas of national tradition.