“日常生活美学”批判与“超越性美学”重建

当代中国美学发生了日常生活美学与超越性美学的对立。日常生活美学肯定大众文化,主张审美回归日常生活,建立以感性快乐为本质的新的美学原则;而超越性美学则主张审美超越日常生活,应该对大众文化进行审美批判。现代性分裂为世俗现代性和反思现代性,世俗现代性沦为感性异化,而审美属于反思现代性,是对世俗现代性的批判。因此,要吸收后现代主义的合理因素,重建超越性美学。对大众文化,应持一种辩证的态度:一方面,肯定其合理性,承认日常生活审美化丰富、美化了人们生活;另一方面,警惕感性异化,坚持审美的超越性,开展对日常生活的审美批判,建设精英文化。

Criticism of Aesthetics of Daily Life and Reconstruction of Aesthetics of Transcendence

In contemporary Chinese aesthetics,there exists the contradiction between aesthetics of daily life and reconstruction of aesthetics of transcendence. The former affirms the popular culture and suggests that aesthetics should return to daily life,building new aesthetic principles with perceptual pleasure by nature,whereas the latter proposes that aesthetics,going beyond daily life,should criticize the popular culture from the aesthetic perspective. It holds that the modernity can be divided into secular mode...