我们的立足点在哪里?——兼谈当代美学的中国问题

Where is Our Foothold?:Also on Chinese Problem in Contemporary Aesthetics

我们的立足点在今天的中国,在今天中国的美学问题。但今天的中国不是孤立于世界之外,也不是隔绝于传统之中的,西方的美学过去、现在和将来都在不断地影响着我们,传统美学不仅在理论上,而且在实践上制约着我们,甚至可以说就融入在我们的血液中。所以我们必须批判地选择和吸收,这是一个前提。作为美学学者,要想有自己的立足点和话语权,就必须学习和掌握所有重要的美学成果,知道美学问题是怎样提出来的,有哪些问题已经取得了共识,今天摆在人们面前的还有哪些问题,并与中国自身的问题衔接起来,以便找到适合自己的切入点,并且美学学者要为自己民族及其文化发声,为植根于这种文化并具有世界意义的美学理念发声。

Our foothold is today＇s China, and Chinese aesthetic problem. However, China of today is not separated from the world or the tradition. Past, present and future western aesthetics is continually influencing us, and tradition- al aesthetics restricts us from both theory and practice, or we could say that tradition is flowing in our blood. Therefore, we must critically select and absorb, and this is a premise. An aesthetic author must learn and grasp all the significant aesthetic results to know what kind of problems has been put forward and what kind of problems are still not solved, so as to get his or her own foothold and right to speak.