席勒:审美主义和主体间性美学的开拓者

席勒是近代启蒙主义的美学家和文学家。对现代性进行审美批判的审美主义第一人,也是超越主体性的主体间性美学的鼻祖。席勒虽然是在理性主义的哲学框架内建立美学理论的,把审美作为达到理性的手段,从而使审美附属于理性,但是,他的美学思想最终突破了理性主义的藩篱,摆脱了美对于理性的依附,走向了审美主义。

Schiller: the Pioneer of Aestheticism and Aesthetics of Inter-subjectivity

Schiller is a litterateur and an aesthetician in the Enlightenment Movement. However, Schiller’s influence is more than that. He is also the first of aestheticism that renders aesthetical criticism on modernity, and also the forerunner of the aesthetics of inter-subjectivity that transcends subjectivity. Schiller establishes his aesthetical theories in the framework of rationalism and uses appreciation of the beauty as a medium to reach rationality, thus making appreciation of the beauty dependent on rationality. But his aesthetic thoughts break through the fence of the rationalism. In his thoughts, the beauty is released from its leaning on rationality and arrives at aestheticism. Schiller’s definition of the beauty shows the aesthetic thoughts of subjectivity, and the functions of his appreciation of the beauty head for inter-subjectivity.