New History of Western Aesthetics

Author: Zhang Qiqun
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Publish Date: 2004-02-01
Features: The main theoretical knowledge of aesthetics should come from the history of aesthetics. Because the categories and ideas in aesthetic theory are formed and continuously enriched and deepened in the development of history. For example, the concept of "beauty" today in China and ancient China, today in the West and ancient Greece, must have different connotations. Only through the study of the history of aesthetics can we understand and appreciate the connotations and true meaning of these concepts more deeply. Of course, if the author, through the analysis of some aesthetic difficulties, demonstrates the depth and significance of the theory itself, allowing readers to experience the joy of "thinking"; and can enter from the concept of beauty, by hinting at the values, life views, and worldviews in Western culture, to explore some of the intrinsic relationships and essential meanings between humans and beauty, humans and art, thereby enabling readers to achieve a new understanding and awareness of the aesthetic significance of our own lives, then this is also great comfort for the author.