二十世纪庄子文艺思想研究回顾

尽管不是专门讨论文艺的著作,《庄子》一书却以其独特的魅力对后世中国文艺思想产生了重大而深刻的影响。在“中国文学批评”这一学科形成并得到极大发展的二十世纪,以中西比较的意识和方法,从美学、文论的角度来研究庄子,就成为二十世纪特别是近三十年来学术界的一大热点。而今,站在新世纪的起点上,回望庄子文艺思想研究的百年历程,考较其得失,也许会对当下的中国文论研究和庄子美学意义的继续彰显提供重要启示。

A Retrospect of Research on Zhuangzi's Literary Ideology in 20th Century

Though Zhuangzi is not a specialized literary book, it has played a great important role on the development of Chinese literary ideology with its unique fascination. In the 20th century, especially in the past thirty years, the research of Zhuangzi's ideology from the comparative and aesthetical perapectives has become one of the hotpoints of social science research along with the formation and great development of this subject:" Chinese literary criticism". Nowadays,at the beginning of the new century, the retro-spect of nearly 100 years' history of research and observing its benefits and defects maybe will give some useful enlightenments to today's Chinese literary research and the exposure of Zhuangzi's aesthetical sig-nificance.