中国美学史研究法发微

A Survey of Research Methodology for the History of Chinese Aesthetics

目前市面上见到的一些中国美学史专著在撰著结构上的缺陷 ,造成了对古代美学史内在规律的研究欠缺力度和深度的现象。对此 ,有必要对美学史的修史方法进行某种反思。与西方人的审美经验更偏重人与艺术的关系不同 ,人与自然的关系是中国古人审美经验中最基本的关系。

The common structural inadequacy in the recent studies of the history of Chinese aesthetics has resulted in a lack of insights into the intrinsic laws governing the development of classical Chinese aesthetics. A reflection on the methodology hitherto used in the study of Chinese aesthetics is therefore necessary. It is a reflection on the different interests underlining aesthetics: the one that exists between man and art, as in the Western experience, and the other between man and nature, as in the Chinese experience. Two major breakthroughs and three important syncretisms in the history of Chinese aesthetics are spotted and studied in this essay.