Aesthetic And Experience

Dewey's aesthetic theory which is builted on the key of "experience", criticized the metaphysics based on the traditional dualism, has profound humanistic care and realistic significance. This paper, starting from the experience,surrounding the aesthetics and art, explore the aesthetics of modern significance, and inspect the humanistic idealism in the more grand cultural background, find the transcendence pointing it contains.This paper tries to present a kind of successive extension of the aperture scene:The first step, seek the philosophy foundation of Dewey's empirical aesthetics theory. Departuring form pragmatism, monism and biological evolution, and painting a center-"experience", examining the changes of the philosophy and the experience reformed by Dewey,and pointed out that how did Dewey beyond the debating of traditional empiricism and rationalism on this issue, which is the starting point of aesthetic research of Dewey.The second step, from philosophy into the aesthetic, inspects the improtantest category of Dewey empirical aesthetics. The article will devid the aesthetics and art into two parts, and avoid the confusion of the traditional research situation, meanwhile, experience will be a deep vein to coupling the two core category. The aesthetic comes from experience, experience can go to aesthetic; Art also comes from experience, and experience dependent on artistic creation to preserving and communication.Third step, this article selects the aesthetic redeemed theory and aesthetic daily life these two modern aesthetic landscape, discussed its background, theoretical essence and dilemmas, combining them with the Dewey empirical aesthetics thought compared all-round, on the one hand, it can make us further understanding Dewey's empirical aesthetics theoretical connotation, on the other hand, it can help defining its orientation and theoretical value contain in the modern context. Fourth step, locating Dewey empirical aesthetics humanistic idealism, from individual survival ontology-art sociology-art and civilization in the three layer structure, we discovered there are profound humanistic ideals the aesthetic theory bulied on the foundment of experience, it has strong practical pointing and humanistic care, aesthetics and art to be returned to the individual, social and human civilization in, and become a part of color with ontology. For this, we not only see the Dewey empirical aesthetics how overturn the traditional aesthetic independent and art self-discipline, also see its grand cultural significance and transcendence, then finally understand the point why the aesthetics theory can integrate the ideological system of John Dewey.Meanwhile, considering that Dewey and Marx in aesthetic field appears many similarities, this paper selects the "experience" and "practical" to compare, we will see the similarities and differences with Marx and Dewey, final objectively analyze the limitations of the humanistic ideal in Dewey aesthetic theory.On structure, this article performance for one center and three extension surrounded it. From philosophy foundation to the core category, from the modern orientation to the humanistic idealism, connotation and significance of Dewey empirical aesthetics layered get display. The first two chapters form a part, it is the foundation content of Dewey empirical aesthetics research, if you want to know and understand Dewey empirical aesthetics, you must recognize its philosophical foundation and core category; another chapters form a part, which investigating Dewey empirical aesthetics in greater modern context and human life practice background, this is the extension of of Dewey empirical aesthetics and also main content of the paper.