Introduction to Aesthetics

Author: Cao Junfeng
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Publish Date: 2001-03-01
Features: This book is an academic monograph that employs logical analysis and linguistic critique to address traditional aesthetics. It is divided into six chapters, with the first two chapters outlining the background of the emergence of meta-aesthetics: the defects of traditional aesthetics, such as unclear boundaries and ambiguous semantics, as well as the methods and origins of meta-aesthetics. Chapters three to five analyze the concept of aesthetics, the semantics of propositions, and the logicality of propositions. The author points out that aesthetics can be divided into five levels: object description, psychological description, technical evaluation, aesthetic evaluation, and aesthetic principles, each with different properties and varying logical values. The book specifically critiques the main Western aesthetic thoughts, from Aristotle to Baumgarten, Kant, and Hegel, and the final chapter also compares Eastern and Western aesthetic thoughts. It is a monograph with innovative ideas and a high academic standard.