论审美体验的非时间性——以米歇尔·亨利对时间性概念的批判为线索

On the Non-Temporality of Aesthetic Experience: Case Study of Michel Henry’s Criticism of Temporality

时间性通常被认为是审美体验显现自身的先验条件。亨利通过严格区分事物的两种显现方式,对此提出了挑战。亨利认为,时间性的本质是虚无,无法给予事物任何实在。如果强行把时间性结构置于审美体验之中,只会使之失去活生生的实在。审美体验就是生命的一种形态,它构成了生命自我转化和自我生长的一个重要环节。只有在生命的自我感受中,审美体验才能如其所是地显现自身。

Temporality is often considered as a transcendental condition of the manifestation of aesthetic experience, which, however, is challenged by Michel Henry, who distinguishes two ways of appearing. Henry believes that the essence of temporality is nihility, which cannot bestow on things any reality. The imposition of the structure of temporality on aesthetic experience would only deprive the experience of its living reality. As a mode of life, aesthetic experience constitutes an important moment of life’s self-transformation and self-growth, and therefore only in life’s feeling of itself can aesthetic experience be manifested as what it is.