如何确立元美学的反思立场

How to Develop a Reflective View of Metaesthetics

元美学对美学的反思研究既要有利于增长美学知识,又要有利于美学提高对自身合理性的自觉意识和发展获得更大合理性的能力。为此,元美学的反思立场应体现时代思维发展的高度、美学发展的历史方位和价值取向。辨证唯物主义和历史唯物主义代表着时代思维发展的最高水平,对元美学反思研究具有普遍指导意义。美学发展史基本体现为美本质范畴的演进过程,美本质经过本体论和认识论发展阶段之后转向价值论方向。从价值论出发,当代中国美学要坚持意识形态立场和人民性立场,通过研究人民大众的审美需要介入现代化建设总体进程,自觉维护和促进社会主义经济基础。

Metaesthetics is the reflective study of aesthetics, which should help not only enrich aesthetic thoughts but also improve our initiative consciousness of rationalizing aesthetics itself and our ability to rationalize the aesthetic development. So a reflective view of metaesthetics should embody the latest thoughts, the intention of value and the historical situation of the aesthetic improvement. Signaling the peak of contemporary thoughts, the dialectical and historical materialism could give a general direction to the reflective study of aesthetics. The history of aesthetics development is a reflection of the evolutionary process of the essential categories, which has now turned to the field of axiology after the ontological and epistemological stages. In the light of axiology, the study of aesthetics in China should stick firmly to the ideological standpoint and the stand of affinity to the people and, besides, maintain and improve the socialist economic development consciously through the study of the people's aesthetic need involving the overall course of modernization construction.