Deduction and Vicissitudes of the Aesthetic Taste : On Bourdieu's Inheritance and Transcendence of Kant's Aesthetics

The western modern thought has changed the tradition since ancient Greece,and has caused great changes in field. For one thing,aesthetics has become a separate subject; for another,thinkers turned the focus from the researches on the beauty itself to the thinking on the concerning themselves or peer groups. In this context,regarding the concept of aesthetic taste,Bourdieu criticizes the basic concepts of Kant's taste judgment,especially his essentialism and universalism,so as to emphasizetaste distinctionwith the essence of classes and subjectivity's tasteunder the framework of field,with the purpose of establishingthe scientific sociology. However,Bourdieu expounds with sociological theories and equates aesthetics to ideology and general cultural product of society; hence there remains the problem of excluding perspective and transcendence.