The Discourse Space of Chinese Modern Aesthetics and Methodology Transformation

Chinese modern aesthetics illustrates the interactionof Chinese and Western aesthetics: after ontology and subjective philosophy, Western aesthetics finally broke the subject-object dichotomy epistemology mode of philosophical discourse and the unlimited expansion of subjectivity, and was then represented by imagism and phenomenology, adopting irrationality and using imagistic, intuitive thinking manner, in order to return to experience itself; at the same time, modern China has been introducing Western resources to reshape the aesthetic subject, referring to Western aesthetic theories in the framework, the discourse and the philosophical background of the discipline, as well as using the Enlightenment attitudes and independent aesthetic discourse to reconstruct academic knowledge of aesthetics. This interactive conversion discourse space allows us to conclude that aesthetics from the date of birth was innately related to aesthetic practices, and tried to search the fundamental truth of humanity with sensitivity. At the same time, we witness the loss of classical discourse resources in the development of aesthetics, and we are thus standing on the same starting line with modern Western aesthetics. This fact also provides an opportunity for the transformation and development of modern Chinese aesthetics. Intuitive sensibility and aesthetic culture constitute the bidirectional dimensions of the future development of Chinese and Western aesthetics. The methodology transformation of experience-reflection is also adapted to the needs of the future development of aesthetics.