Introduction to Aesthetics - China National Library·Philosophy and Social Sciences Category

Author: Wang Zhaowen (Editor-in-Chief)
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Publishing Date: 2005-07-01
Features: This book is guided by Marxist theory, comprehensively summarizes the theoretical achievements of the major aesthetic discussions in the 1950s-1960s and the "aesthetic fever" in the early 1980s, and preliminarily establishes a Marxist aesthetic perspective centered on the theory of social practice. The book has a reasonable systematic structure, concise content, and clear language. The preliminary draft was completed in 1961-1964, revised in 1981, and first published in 1981. It is the first systematic and authoritative college-level liberal arts aesthetic textbook in New China, which has influenced several generations of aesthetic learners and remains a fundamental reading material for studying aesthetics to this day. The edition used in this book is the June 1981 edition published by the People's Publishing House.