论“后实践美学”——以“超越美学”与“生命美学”为对象

On “Post-practical Aesthetics”——A Study of “Transcendent Aesthetics”and “Life Aesthetics”

"后实践美学"的理论基础是以生命哲学、存在主义哲学等为代表的现代西方哲学思潮而非马克思的历史唯物主义;逻辑起点是生命、存在(生存)等范畴,而非马克思主义的实践概念(实践观),虽然它指出了实践论美学的某些缺陷,具有一定的思想启示,但是它更多呈现出来的是一种建立在对实践论美学的理论精髓进行误解和曲解基础上的理论缺陷。"后实践美学"对于实践论美学的批评,"不仅把不同层面的研究作了混淆,而且不少批评都是不够准确,在学理上是经不起分析的"。这点,是我们当前推进实践论美学和当代中国美学研究时,必须加以认真反思的基本问题之一。

Contemporary Western philosophies represented by the philosophy of life and existentialism, rather than Marx＇s historical materialism, provide a theoretical basis for the post-practical aesthetics. Its logical point of departure is life, exist- ence（survival） and other concepts, rather than the Marist concept of practice （practice orientation）. Though not without a certain ideological inspiration in pointing out some of the shortcomings of practice-oriented aesthetics, the post-practical aes- thetics betrays theoretical defects that result from a distortion and misunderstanding of the theoretical essence of practical aes- thetics. The criticism of the practical aesthetics by the post-practical aesthetics ＂not only confuses researches of different lev- els, but is in large part imprecise and therefore can＇t stand an academic analysis＂. And this is one of the fundamental issues we must seriously reflect upon when we advance the practical aesthetics and contemporary Chinese aesthetic research.