生态美学的身体之维

The Bodily Dimension of Eco-aesthetics

在传统的美学理论中,身体在审美经验中的作用一直受到忽视和贬低,因为审美经验被看作精神性的认识活动,而身体则被看作物质性存在,因此只能充当审美活动的对象和工具。生态美学的产生带来了身体作用的根本性提升,因为对于生态环境的鉴赏不是心灵对事物的认识活动,而是身体与环境之间的交流。作为生态环境的一部分,身体不再是一种纯粹的物质性存在,而是一种有灵性的物,这种灵化的身体不再是审美活动的对象和工具,而直接成了审美活动的主体。

Traditional aesthetics ignores and deprecates the function of body in aesthetic experience.This perception sees aesthetic experience as essentially an intellectual and cognitive activity whereas the body was a physical entity,suitable only to serve as the object or tool of aesthetic cognition.Eco-aesthetics,however,views the enjoyment of the ecological environment not as resulting from the mind＇s cognitive grasp of the environment but as the result of interaction between the body and the surroundings.As part of the eco-environment,the body is no longer a mere physical entity,but something endued with spirit.Spiritualized body is no more a tool or object of aesthetic perception,but its subject.