新时期“美学热”重估

The Reassessment on “Aesthetics Fever ” in the New Period

新时期初兴起的"美学热"是中国当代思想史上重要也是较为成功的一次美学预演,引领了其后的审美文化研究以及新世纪美学再次复兴的话题。它是在改革开放的国家话语中迅速生成的,其本质在于借助马克思《1844年经济学哲学手稿》中"人学"主题的再阐释助推其时的思想解放大潮。反思并重估新时期"美学热"显得尤为必要,一方面是从美学的角度正视当代中国社会文化思想纷争的合理性,推进人文思想进步的重要呈现;另一方面是继续推进改革开放语境的当代政治话语需求,是在社会各个领域尤其在人文思想层面继续深化发展的重要历史参照。

The 'aesthetic current' at the beginning of the new period in early 1980 s is an important and successful aesthetic preview in contemporary China, resulting in the subsequent aesthetic culture researches and the revival of aesthetics in the new century. It is generated in the national discourse of the 'reform and open policy', whose essence is the source of the theory of 'human thought' from Marx’s Economic Philosophy Manuscript. It is particularly necessary to reflect and re-evaluate the aesthetic fever in the new period. On the one hand, it is necessary to face up to the rationality of the disputes between contemporary Chinese social and cultural thoughts from the aesthetic point of view and to promote the important presentation of the progress of humanistic thoughts;on the other hand, it is also an important historical reference for the further development of contemporary political discourse in the context of reform and opening-up, especially in the humanistic ideological level.