The Exploration About Croce's Aesthetics Thought

Benedetto Croce, is a famous Italian philosopher, esthetician and literature critic. The key of his expressionism esthetics theory is "intuition is exhibition, exhibition is art". Aesthetics is always a flower on the basis of philosophy. So, we should inquire the source of the esthetics theory of Croce first. Vico, Kant and Hegel have influenced Croce. Croce thinks that spirit is the root of the world and what is holded by the spirit is realistic. The activity of the spirit is all the realism. There is only spirit in the world, and the spirit can create the whole. So Croce calls his philosophy "spirit philosophy". Croce established his huge esthetics theory system on his spirit philosophy. From the key idea "intuition is exhibition", He answered that what is intuition. By comparing the intuition and recept and sensation, he concludes the characteristic of the intuition. The intuition is the lyric exhibition. The intuition is beauty. The intuition is art. The creation of the art and the justice are united. He thinks the art is not physics reality or utility activity or morality activity or concept activity. He points that the art is not classified. Croce explains his idea "intuition is exhibition" on the basis of the affirmation and the negation. This paper concludes some important ideas, such as freedom beauty and non-freedom beauty and criticism and the history of the art in his bookmaking. Expressionism esthetics theory of Croce is very complicated and ample. It concludes the rational idea and the unilateral idea. This paper gives the brief estimate of these ideas. Expressionism esthetics theory of Croce has affected in the west and in China. The theory has important meanings today.