王国维生命美学思想管窥

My Humble View on Wang Guo-wei's Aesthetic Thoughts on Life

王国维的生命美学思想表现了对美、艺术和纯审美精神的关注和追求,体现出对生命特别是生命价值和人的精神自由追求的特殊关怀。王国维注重情感和美在人生中的重要意义,在人生意志、纯形式美的静观、超功利性等理念中理解美、寻找理想和人生困境的突破口,体现出深切的人文关怀,对生命本质的思考;通过艺术和审美反观人生,追寻纯审美的人生境界———超越、自由和感性美的追求,形成他生命美学思想核心,虽不无西方思想的影子,却充分体现了中国古典美学的终结和现代性转换的轨迹。

Wang Guo-wei＇s aesthetics on life represents his attention and pursuit of the beauty, art and pure aesthetic spirit, which incarnates his concern to the life, especially the pursuit of human value and mental freedom. Wang Guo-wei attaches great importance to the role of feeling and beauty in human life by comprehending beauty, searching ideal, and breaking the life plight with the concept of human will, which transcends beyond the utility, and incarnates his deep concern and thought of life essential. Looking back to the life with art and aesthetics, seeking the life boundary of pure aesthetics, he transcends, frees and pursues sensual beauty, forming the core thought of his aesthetics on life. Although his aesthetics has the shad- ow of western thought, it fully incarnates the end of Chinese classical aesthetics and the turning trend of modernity.