以意统象,以象显意——朱志荣审美意象观述评

Comments on Zhu Zhirong’s Imagery Aesthetics

朱志荣在深入挖掘中国传统美学资源的基础上,提出了“美是意象”命题。他认为意象以主体情感为核心,是以意统象、以象显意的具体呈现,体现了“天人合一”的思维方式。他从中国古代的本体论思想出发,将意象看成是美的本体,将“象、神、道”看成是意象的本体结构,由物我之神浑然一体,才能达到“神合体道”的境界。意象是在审美活动中能动创构的结果,它是生成的,而不是预成的,其中包含着感悟、判断、创造的有机统一,进而突破了实体性理论思维的局限。朱志荣对意象思想的现代阐释,是一种具有时代特色的美学创新与探索。他强调意象一直是与时俱进、不断丰富和不断发展的,有着强大的生命力,为构建中国美学话语体系提供了新的理论视野。

Zhu Zhirong puts forward the proposition that‘beauty is imagery’on the basis of deeply excavating Chinese traditional aesthetic resources.He thinks that the imagery takes the subject emotion as the core,serves as the concrete presentation of the reciprocal relationship between emotion and image,which embodies the thinking mode of‘the unity of man and the Heaven.’Starting from the ontological thought of ancient China,he regarded imagery as the noumenon of beauty,and‘image,mind and Tao’as the noumenon structure of imagery.Only by the integration of the mind of the thing and the mind of the self,can he reach the realm of the combination of mind and Tao.Imagery is the result of active creation in aesthetic activities,it is generated,not preformed,which contains the organic unity of perception,judgment and creation,and then breaks through the limitations of substantive theoretical thinking.Zhu Zhirong’s modern interpretation of imagery is an aesthetic innovation and exploration with the contemporary characteristics.He stressed that imagery has always been advancing with the times,constantly enriching and developing,and has strong vitality,which provides a new theoretical vision for the construction of Chinese aesthetic discourse system.