朱光潜美学思想的当代意义

朱光潜美学前期主张“美是主客观的统一”说,其方法是以先验哲学为依托,侧重经验分析方法,将理性和非理性方法统一起来对现今或偏于理性主义(李泽厚)、或偏于非理性主义(潘知常)错误方法都有警示作用。朱光潜后期美学在研习马克思实践美学基础上,提出了美在主客体(不是“观”)的统一,同时他理解的“体”不是“实体”,而是将“体”消溶于历史之中,甚至把美学和美学史视为同一的,这和现在实践或新实践的美学观点都是有区别的。

The Significance of Zhu Guangqian's Aesthetic Theory for the Present Age

In the early period of his aesthetic theory, Zhu Guangqian maintains that beauty is the unity between the subjective and the objective. Relying on transcendental philosophy and focusing on the method of empirical analysis, Zhu Guangqian unites rational and irrational methods, which has served as a caution to the current erroneous methods such as over-rationalism (Li Zehou) and over-irrationalism (Pan Zhichang). In the later period of his aesthetics, however, Zhu Guangqian, based upon Marx's practical aesthetics, puts forward that beauty is the unity between the subject and the object (not the subjective and the objective). At the same time he explains that the subject and the object are not the substance but dissolved in the history. Zhu Guangqian even maintains that the aesthetics is identical with the aesthetic history, which is different from the viewpoints of the present practical aesthetics or neo-practical aesthetics.