The Study Of Kierkegaard's Aesthetic Conception

Religion and divinity dominated the whole Soren kierkegaard's philosophy, he developed his philosophical criticism and aesthetical conception from here.As a faithful Christian , kierkegaard accepted the basic conception of the Middle Ages' aesthetics: spiritize beauty. In theory, he regarded the beauty as the union of soul and body, meanwhile, he thought that the Christianity have defined the character of spirit. In practice, he divided the art into two sorts: spiritual art, sensual art. The principle of classification is that the relation between spirit and idea in which art is expressed by media. On the one hand, from a religious standpoint, sensual art are incredible as it is far distand from spirit, on the other hand kierkegaard was still untrust in spiritual art because of his definition of spirit. He thought that the spirit is not a abstract rationality, but the individual face the God to exist. The existence is not only presence that the individual is in changeable reality all the times, but also sensation that the freedom is a infinite possibility. The freedom is spirit and mankind' definition, but it is followed by solitude, horror and despiration. Infinite possibility is apt to lose individual his dependence, finally, the individual faint in the freedom. Under the condition, one can obtain the single help is to attaching oneself to the God. In the kierkegaard' times, he thought that people is always attaching themselves to rationality because they misunderstand the spirit, so spiritual art is becoming the substitute for rationality. In sum, the sensual art is immersing the individual in the sensual enjoyment, spiritual art is dipping the individual into the delicious game of rationality, both of the art can't contribute to the individual being existence and spirit.Concerning kierkegaard' s criticism, anti-aesthetics is evidently the main character of his aesthetical conception. The character is innately contacted with the Middle Ages' aesthetics that neglected and even oppressed the reality's cuture. As a Christian, kierkegaard had inevitably a prejudice against reality's cuture. But his criticism is not simply a traditional hereitage, he possessed the cute consciousness of reality. People can see the deep insight and perspicacious sight that exceeded his times in his criticism of newspapers and media.