Aesthetics Three Books

Author: Li Zehou
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Publish Date: 2003-10-01
Features: Aesthetics Three Books collects three of the author's renowned aesthetic works, characterized by the fusion of modern philosophical concepts and traditional cultural spirit. The Journey of Beauty offers a panoramic, macro-level aesthetic grasp of Chinese literature and art over thousands of years, proposing important concepts such as "Dragon and Phoenix Dance," "Fierce Beauty," "Confucianism and Taoism Complementarity," "Chu-Han Romanticism," "The Awakening of Humanity (Culture)," Buddha statue sculpture, landscape painting in three categories, and so on, revealing insights previously unexplored. Huaxia Aesthetics, starting from traditional theory, delves more deeply into the non-Dionysian characteristics of Huaxia culture, which emphasizes the integration of reason and desire. These two books form the internal and external (art history) chapters of the author's history of Chinese aesthetics. Aesthetics Four Lectures is a systematic treatise on the author's aesthetic thought, using concepts such as "accumulation" and "cultural psychological structure" to interpret Marx's idea of "natural humanization," constructing the author's own philosophical anthropology and ontology, and responding to various philosophical and aesthetic schools of thought from abroad. This book has been a bestseller for over ten years and has had an influence beyond the scope of the aesthetics discipline. This phenomenon perfectly demonstrates an important viewpoint the author repeatedly emphasizes: aesthetics is the highest pursuit of the Chinese people.
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