互证与阐发:关于中国现代美学方法论的一种理解

Mutual Evidence and Elucidation:An Understanding of the Methodology of Modern Chinese Aesthetics

中国现代美学的基本方法论就是从中国本土问题解决的需要出发,借西方哲学、美学的观念和方法来阐发中国自己的思想材料,由此建立起中国的美学理论,并由此激活传统美学思想,开始了中国美学史的建构。因此,这种美学意欲解决的问题是中国当下的,核心价值观也是中国当下的,而非全然西方的。中国现代美学诞生于解决中国本土问题的需要,诞生于从“修身”这个中国传统文化核心任务出发对西学的选择。同时,中国现代美学是在没有学科内部细分的情况下产生的,西方美学和中国美学、美学的“史”和“论”、美学与其他学科都可以糅合在一起,从而形成了打通古今中外的美学研究格局。中国现代美学强烈的社会介入意识和本土问题意识、深刻的思想性和原创的学术性的有机融合、在对传统思想材料以及传统文学艺术的现代阐释过程中实现的传统美学的现代转换,对于今天中国美学三大体系建设具有重要的借鉴价值。

The basic methodology of modern Chinese aesthetics starts from the needs of solving local problems in China,and borrows the concepts and methods from Western philosophy and aesthetics to elucidate China’s own ideological materials,thus establishing the theory of Chinese aesthetics,activating the traditional aesthetic thought,and beginning the construction of the history of Chinese aesthetics.Therefore,the problems that this aesthetics intends to solve are contemporary in China,and the core values are also contemporary in China,not exclusively Western.Modern Chinese aesthetics was born out of the need to solve China’s local problems and out of the choice of Western learning which starts from the core task of traditional Chinese culture,that is,“cultivating one’s moral quality”.At the same time,modern Chinese aesthetics was born without any further division within the discipline,so that Western aesthetics and Chinese aesthetics,the“history”and“theories”of aesthetics,and aesthetics and other disciplines could be combined together,thus forming a pattern of aesthetics that bridges the ancient and the modern,the Chinese and the foreign.The strong consciousness of social intervention and local problems,the organic integration of profound ideology and original scholarship,and the modern transformation of traditional aesthetics realized in the process of modern interpretation of traditional ideological materials as well as traditional literature and art are important reference values for the construction of the three major systems of Chinese aesthetics today.