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

In contemporary Chinese aesthetics,there exists the contradiction between of daily and reconstruction of 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 modernity and reflective modernity. While the secular modernity falls into perceptual alienation,aesthetics belongs to reflective modernity,criticizing the secular. Therefore,it is necessary to adopt the reasonable factors of the Post-Modernism and reconstruct the of transcendence. As for the popular culture,we should take a dialectic attitude.On the one hand,we affirm its rationality and admit that of daily has enriched and beautified people's life; on the other hand,we should stay alert against the perceptual alienation,stick to the aesthetics of transcendence,critique aesthetic of daily life and construct the elite culture.