社会美及其后现代转向

社会美作为美的形态之一，作为中国美学的“特产”，曾经在中国美学界引发过激烈的讨论、研究与宣扬。然而，它在经历了半个多世纪的发展之后，却逐渐走向了停滞。不过，在进入新世纪之后，西方当代美学开始关注生活、社会和自然，开始将生活、艺术、社会、自然的界限抹平--它们开始提出所谓的“日常生活审美化”、“肯定美学”、“景观美学”--而这些实际上和中国现当代的社会美有着相同的时代诉求和审美立场。同时，伴随着后现代主义的进展，后现代美学思想的影响，社会美开始走向一种建设性的审美征途之中。它开始倡导一种自由、多元、和谐的审美观念，而这些实际上就是一种广义的生态美学观。

On Social Beauty and Its Post-modern Turn

As one state of the beauties and “specialty product”as Chinese aesthetics,social beauty once triggered intense discussion,study and publicity.It has come to its stagnation after the development of half a century.However,in the new century,western aesthetics began to pay attention to life,society and nature,and began to screed the boundaries of life,arts,society and nature,and put forward the ideas of “aestheticization of everyday life”,“positive aesthetics” and “landscape aesthetics”,which share the same appeals of the times and aesthetic position with modern China’s social beauty.Meanwhile,as the development of post-modernism and the affect of post-modern aesthetics,social beauty has developed to a new constructive state,which advocates a free,pluralistic and harmonious aesthetic concept,that is,a ecological aesthetics in a broad sense.