Body·Aesthetic·Ideology

Content: Terry Eagleton(1943— ) is a prestigious western Marxist, who is energetic , quick-witted, humorous and specializing in controversy. In the contemporary realm of literary theory, he wins high reputation with his unique academic individuality and remarkable academic achievement. In the kingdom of aesthetics, Eagleton elucidates his aesthetic idea accurately in Aesthetic Ideology. Taking body language and utilizing aesthetics as ideology, Eagleton constructs the political poetics of Marxism. In Eagleton's view, aesthetics plays a vital role in modern ideology. It is not a pure land. The relation between aesthetics and society and politics is not faint. On the contrary, aesthetics has relations with the leading ideology. What's more, it is the construction behavior of political practice.This essay will come to carry on the review to Eagleton's aesthetic ideology theory from the following four parts. Part one ,Eagleton think one should go beyond the rational doctrine contained by itself . he historically connected aesthetics with politics , freedom , custom , moral, soul, imagination which were estranged day by day and even incommensurable fields in a normal sense , finding out the aesthetic surmounting advantage. Therefore; he can carry on the aesthetic dilatation with keen determination on the narrow sense: The aesthetic perceptual return on one hand in this meaning, on the other hand the contradictory construction in the ideology meaning. Part two .Eagleton gave up aesthetic feeling , beauty essence such as aesthetic ontology in aesthetic ideology. He thinks the idea, country , class contradiction and political theme of the mode of production have a connection with body aesthetic words. Aesthetics marks the creative transformation of the perceptual human body , and also indicates that people can carve and dig the human body by training the rule in fine and smooth ways. It is obvious that the aesthetic ideology theory is a combination of politics culture and poems. Part three ,Eagleton thinks aesthetics connected with body languages is a political science about perceptual body, we cant isolate the relationship between it and ideology for the sake of the purity of aesthetics . On one hand, ideology takes effects through aesthetics to mould individuals and combine civil order ; on the other hand, Aesthetics itself generates a resistant impulse against general ideology and society reality. In conclusion Part, the essay will brief in the contemporary part that Eagleton aesthetic thoughts will perform in our socialist harmonious society construction and our contemporary literary creation and criticism in China. P...