崇高的后现代转向——以利奥塔崇高美学为例

NoblePostmodern Turn——A case study of Lyotard Sublime Aesthetics

利奥塔作为后现代先锋式美学家,在其对当代社会的知识状况考察时指出了后现代宏大叙事的危机。他认为当代社会在追求一种普遍原则的同时忽略了社会中个体的差异性和矛盾性,人成为屈从于资本社会消费价值、权利控制之下的非人。利奥塔在此重提崇高理论,崇高精神成为利奥塔用文化反叛现代性的武器,崇高论以其感性的,欲望的,不可呈现的情感状态解构了自启蒙时期以来的对理性、权威的尊崇,重新找出建构公正、合理社会的可能性。

Lyotard, as a post - modem avant - type esthetician, inspected the state of knowledge on contemporary socie- ty, pointing out the crisis of the grand narratives of the post - modem time. He believes that contemporary society in pursuit of a universal principle ignores individual differences and contradictions in society, people succumb to the capital value of social con- sumption and the rights under the control of non - human. Lyotardg brought up again the sublime theory, and the noble spirit had become the weapons of Lyotardg the cultur~ rebellion of modernism. Sublime theory deconstructed the worship of rational and au- thority since the Enlightenment period with its sensual desire which cannot be rendered emotional state, and tried to find out the possibility to build a lust and reasonable society.