当代批判理论的审美共同体思想及其限度

The Idea of Aesthetic Community and Its Limits in Contemporary Critical Theories

审美共同体是当代批判理论的重要美学问题,呈现为共识与差异、主体化与去主体化、边界与去边界与审美共同体的理论批判等若干向度的问题式探究。当代批判理论重审总体性危机,经由审美和感性维度的阐发建构出容纳差异的、去主体化的、去边界的、非实体的、流动的审美共同体范式。当代批判理论的审美共同体思想呈现出极强的实践品性和批判色彩,然而在面对现实语境中的具体问题时其常常体现为理论与思辨层面的介入性。

This essay focuses on the issue of aesthetic community in contemporary critical theories,which engages such problems as consensus and difference,subjectification and de-subjectification,border and borderlessness and the criticism of aesthetic community.Through analyses of the aesthetic and perceptual dimensions of the community,contemporary critical theorists construct an aesthetic community paradigm featured by inclusion of differences,de-subjectivization,borderlessness,insubstantiality and fluidity.Contemporary critical theories manifest distinct characteristics of practical intervention and criticism;however,their intervention into specific issues in reality is often limited at the theoretical and philosophical levels.