Nihilist Aesthetics (Revised Edition) ((Revised Edition))

Author: Wu Xuan
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Publish Date: 2004-09-01
Features: This book takes the author's creation of "ontological negation" as the logical starting point of its theory. It proposes important propositions on "How can beauty be possible?", "What is beauty?", "What is aesthetics?", and "The basic categories of aesthetics" as "Beauty exists within ontological negation," "Beauty is the unfinished state of ontological negation," "Aesthetics can only say 'unbeautiful' and 'ugly'," and "The basic categories of aesthetics are outdated, incomplete, mediocre, chaotic, artificial, and rigid." This book combines the traditional separation of critique and creation, highlights the individualized understanding of the aesthetizer, transforms the transcendental view that "aesthetic pleasure is superior to sensory pleasure," and establishes its own aesthetic thought system in the ontology, methodology, and aesthetic practice of aesthetics.