Calling for the Return of Contemporary Aesthetic Spirit
Yang Jia-you
Abstract
Yang Jia-you
Abstract
The lack of spirit or the disenchantment is the significant problem which must be resolved urgently in contemporary society.As the discipline of pursuing the aesthetic value,aesthetics is inseparable with spirit.Calling for the return of spirit becomes a obligated historical mission for the modern aesthetics.For the connotation of the spirit contains the implication of aesthetics,so only based on the spirit,the rationality,freedom and subjectivity which aesthetics pursuits can then have the rationality.Although the aesthetics was full of spirit in the history,the spirit is alienated by the modern individualism;However the individualism has deviated from the entity belief,which leads to value alienation of aesthetics;The individualism is prevalent in the modern aesthetic practice,and the state,nation and other entity belief are confronted with the danger of deconstruction,which determines the urgency of spiritual return of aesthetics in the respects of historical development,theoretical construction and aesthetic practice.
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The lack of spirit or the disenchantment is the significant problem which must be resolved urgently in contemporary society.As the discipline of pursuing the aesthetic value,aesthetics is inseparable with spirit.Calling for the return of spirit becomes a obligated historical mission for the modern aesthetics.For the connotation of the spirit contains the implication of aesthetics,so only based on the spirit,the rationality,freedom and subjectivity which aesthetics pursuits can then have the rationality.Although the aesthetics was full of spirit in the history,the spirit is alienated by the modern individualism;However the individualism has deviated from the entity belief,which leads to value alienation of aesthetics;The individualism is prevalent in the modern aesthetic practice,and the state,nation and other entity belief are confronted with the danger of deconstruction,which determines the urgency of spiritual return of aesthetics in the respects of historical development,theoretical construction and aesthetic practice.
Key concepts: Aesthetics, Individualism, Rationality, Alienation, Value (mathematics), Disenchantment, Sociology, Subjectivity