Kant and Modern Chinese Aesthetic Thought

Author: Yang Ping
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Publish Date: 2002-11-01
Features: This book focuses on the relationship between modern Chinese aesthetics and Kantian aesthetics, adopting a comparative aesthetic perspective. It employs Western hermeneutic methods to interpret the profound inspiration and influence of Kantian aesthetics on modern Chinese aesthetic thought, thereby proposing several meaningful aesthetic propositions such as the non-instrumental nature of aesthetics, aesthetic freedom, and the aesthetic life. Within the context of the times, it explores the relationship between aesthetics and religion, as well as the enlightening role of aesthetics, ultimately concluding with the academic path of modern aesthetics.