批判西方古典美学中的感官歧视主义

A Critique of the Discrimination of Sense Organs in Western Classical Aesthetics

西方古典美学家认为美感不包括触觉、味觉、嗅觉方面的愉悦感,甚至用知识论来鄙视这些愉悦感,这种观念可以概括为'感官歧视主义'。当代中西方的大多数美学研究者仍然信奉这种观念。然而通过重新审视,可以得出它是西方古典美学中的偏见之一。批判这一观念时,马克思、尼采、维特根斯坦、杜威等人的思想能够提供重要的理论资源。不同民族的各种审美经验以及当代神经科学的研究成果也表明,感官歧视主义是一种不合理的美学观念。在新的历史条件下,中国的美学研究者需要从这种陈旧的美学观念中摆脱出来。

Western classical aestheticians believe that sense of beauty does not include the sense of pleasures from touching, tasting, smelling. They use epistemological biases to despise these pleasures. This can be categorized as "Discrimination of Sense Organ,"which can be found in abundant aesthetic literature. Many contemporary Chinese and western aesthetic researchers still hold this idea. It is one of the prejudices in western classical aesthetics. The thoughts of Marx, Nietzsche, Wittgenstein, Dewey and others can provide significant resources of theory to criticize this idea. A variety of aesthetic experiences of different nationalities and research achievements of contemporary neuroscience also reveal that discrimination of sense organ is an unreasonable aesthetic concept. Under new historical conditions,Chinese aesthetics researchers should shake off this old aesthetic concept.