伊格尔顿对马克思主义的伦理辩护

Eagieton's Ethical Defense for Marxism

苏联解体和东欧剧变之后,反马克思主义的观点在西方很盛行。对此,英国新马克思主义者伊格尔顿进行了无情驳斥。伊格尔顿倡导唯物主义美学现,认为人类审美活动是审美主体和审美客体之间建立的一种联系方式——它反映的是审美主体向审美客体的"切近"。他还高度肯定马克思追求审美内容和审美形式统一和要求将"伦理"审美化的美学思想,认为马克思主义美学是关于文化和文明的理论——它立足于现实,但总是向着崇高的理想攀越,内含崇高的伦理价值取向。

After the collapse of the Soviet Union and the upheaval of East Europe, opinions ol anti-Marxism prevailed in the West. Terry Eagleton, a Neo-Marxist of Britain, refuted those opinions mercilessly. He advocated materialistic aesthetics, holding that aesthetic activity is about establishing a contact between aesthetic agent and object to reflect the ＂approximation＂ from agent to object. Besides, he agreed to Marx＇s standpoint of pursuing the unity between aesthetic content and form and demanding the aesthetic appreciation of ethical aesthetics. In Eagleton＇s eye, Marxist aesthetics, with lofty ethical value-orientation, is a theory on culture and civilization, which has its root in reality but pursues lofty ideals.