Criticism And Salvation To The Poetics Of Life - From Existential Aesthetics

As an indivisible part of his ontology philosophy, Heidegger's aesthetics , Existence Poetics in essence, has subverted traditional western aesthetics. It has united beauty and truth internally, and has endowed aesthetics with Being, making it a rooted science from then on. (1) On art it tells us: the occurrence of truth is the innate character of works; to create is to receive and obtain the truth of Being; Bewahrung makes a work be itself and the creative Bewahrung of the truth in works is nothing but art; mordern art is alienated from its resource and rejuvenation of real art signifies the salvation of both modern art and future mankind. (2) On Dichtung it indicates: Dichtung is the nature of all art; Dichtung means linguistic establishment of Being; and Dichtung bestows sacred yardstick on human being which facilitates poetic habitation on the earth. (3) On beauty it shows:beauty is one of the ways truth appears; the being of all is the most beautiful; and fascination simultaneous with perplex implies the essence of beauty.Heidegger looks on Being as Noumenon to save human nature divided by epistemological aesthetics, which illuminates that the whole existence of human, ie, man's Living Existence, must be the Noumenon of future aesthetics. That not only seprets the aesthetics from the scholastic ivory tower and draw it into the life world, but also makes the aesthetics stand on the basis of experience world and have a wider vision with a given transcedent dimension . Living Existence instend of Being indicates the transition of aesthetical topics and signifies that we will walk toward Life Poetics rather than Existence Poetics.Life Poetics will reconstruct an more comprenhensive idea of life, ie, the trinity of vitality-life-existence. Rooted in the history of western thoughts, Life Poetics has its deep theoretical background , that is the vanity of Being, the helplessness of Vitality, and the substance of Life. (1) The vanity of Being is main characteristic of the western metaphysics, whose core concept is Being , and it embodies in two points: firstly, it looks on everything as Being, a rational abstract being, regardless of the vivid sensuous substance, and it wants to induce everything from Being, which can be found in Hegel and Hedigger's philosophies; secondly, human being or god being is considered to be the authoroty, looking down upon all the other being, which results in treading on the whole Nature and making numurous human disasters. (2) Lebensphilosophie is the first effort to rebell anginst the conceit of Being and thers is a similar dendency in many great...