美学三题

Three Subjects of Aesthetics

人类审美个性与其普遍性文化功能是德国古典美学两主题 ,其间存在的逻辑矛盾与历史张力以及其审美个性研究的不够深入 ,都深刻地影响了 2 0世纪中国美学。以宗教为参照 ,可以深化审美个性研究 ,则审美是人类追求即时性感性精神愉悦的活动。审美感性是物质感性、具体感性和即时感性 ,这些决定了审美乃人类精神生活起点、大众文化之典型代表。审美是最世俗的人类精神活动 ,美学则是人类感性精神现象学 ,这当是当代美学基础理论研究的确当起点。在拓展人类精神世界的深度和广度上 ,审美较科学、宗教、哲学均远为逊色。

Human's aesthetic individuality and its universal function of culture are the two subjects of classic German aesthetics. The logic contradiction and historical tension between the two and the insufficient study of the aesthetic individuality all have exerted deep influences on the Chinese aesthetics in the 20th century. The study of aesthetic individuality will be deepened with religion as the framework. In this sense, aesthetics becomes the instantaneous spiritual pleasure of man. Aesthetic feeling is material, specific and instantaneous, which defines that aesthetics is the starting point of human spiritual life and the typical representative of popular culture. Aesthetics is the most popular spiritual activity of humans and the study of it is the spiritual phenomenology of human feeling. This is the actual starting point of the study of contemporary basic theories of aesthetics. However, aesthetics is greatly overshadowed by science, religion and philosophy in the influences on human mind.