Skepticism Aesthetics

Author: Yan Xianglin
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Publish Date: 2004-01-01
Features: Skeptical aesthetics begins with "silence," demonstrating the negation and suspension of multiple a priori premises in aesthetics, logically establishing its methodology. The historical and logical tracing of skeptical philosophy lays a solid foundation for the formation of a personalized theoretical framework. The critical inquiry into traditional aesthetics propels skeptical aesthetics onto a new theoretical path, clarifying the logical distinctions between beauty, meaning, value, emotion, truth, and other concepts. It establishes the poetic existence and wisdom of the nihilization of beauty, exploring the potential correlations between beauty and myth. Aesthetics is not the golden light of reason on the chariot of the sun god, nor the banquet of desire in the Dionysian palace—it is the mysterious forest that the Olympian gods cannot dominate. Beauty is the state of complete freedom and spontaneity of the human mind. The author of this book provides a rich and detailed exposition of skeptical aesthetics while vigorously critiquing traditional aesthetics. They argue that the possibility of aesthetics can only be realized by suspending all norms and concepts imposed upon it. The book proposes bold, traditionally dissenting views on the relationship between "value," "truth," "reason," and "beauty." After radically subverting traditional aesthetics, it opens up new and vast research spaces for the field.