Moving towards cross-cultural aesthetics

Author: Wang Ke-ping
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Publish Date: 2002-10-01
Features: This paper focuses on exploring the relationship between culture and aesthetics, the methodology and academic requirements of cross-cultural aesthetics, while tracing the historical continuity and transformation of aesthetic cultures in the East and the West. It primarily involves the transcendence of cross-cultural aesthetics, the principle of equal dialogue, the comparative method of integrating points and perspectives, and independent academic awareness. It also examines the basic models of the collision and integration of Chinese and Western cultures in aesthetics, such as fragmentary improvisation, systematic disciplinary structures, theoretical integration in the style of Chinese-Western convergence, interdisciplinary comprehensive aesthetic education practices, and comparative studies in Chinese-Western cultural poetics. The discussion on the utopia and aftermath of Western "anti-culture" in the 1960s and 1970s, as well as the characteristics of the Molo-style sublime poetics, modern Western aesthetic trends, and their issues, is based on relevant textual analyses, such as Martin's Contemporary Social and Cultural Transformations, Lu Xun's On the Power of the Molo Poets, and Adorno's Aesthetic Theory.