康德喜剧理论初探

知性与想象力的自由游戏是康德美学的重要组成部分,康德正是立足于此区分了一般生理的笑和审美的笑,将“笑”上升到审美的高度,指出笑是一种由紧张的期待突然转化为虚无而来的激情,是主体对“幻相”的品味,亦是主体对于知性追求的失落而带动的肉体的松弛,并且指出了笑对人的存在的意义,因此康德的喜剧理论是严肃的、深刻的。这与他在晚期著作中抬高崇高排斥喜剧思想也是一脉相承的,其理论对当下喜剧创作也有着重要的指导意义。

Initial Probe in Kant's Comedy Theory

The free game of understanding and imagination is a very important part in Kant's aesthetics,Kant distinguishes the laugh of general physiology and the aesthetic laugh according to this free game,and raises it to the new height of esthetics.Kant thinks that the laugh comes from the passion which suddenly transforms from the intense expectation to nihilism,which is the subject's appreciation to "illusion",namely,which is the relaxation of body that is caused by the loss that the subject pursues understanding,and he points out the meaning of laugh to human being's existence.Therefore,Kant's comedy theory is serious and profound,which comes down in one continuous line that he enhances the loftiness and excludes the comedy thought in his thought of late works and his theory has the significant meaning of guidance to the contemporary comedy creation.