Literary Theory: From Subjectivity to Intersubjectivity

In modern Western philosophy and aesthetics subjectivity is gradually turning to intersubjectivity. In ancient China philosophy and aesthetics were originally intersubjective. After subjectivity was confirmed in 1980s, Chinese literary theory should turn its attention to intersubjectivity. The intersubjective theory goes beyond the limitation of epistemology. Instead of regarding literary creation as the activities in which subject realizes and conquers object, it considers literary creation as the interaction between different subjects, the dialogue and communication between self-subject and world-subject, the identification of each other between self and others and thus as the free existence style and the experience with meaning of being.