Esthetic Difficult Situation And Esthetic Value Reconstruction

In today's technological revolution and the era of lacking beliefs, aesthetic acts as an important state of existence of human life, which endows the mission of human nature reversion and surpassing one's own thoughts. Heidegger thinks that human beings should "live poetically", then in this acquisitive contemporary society, aesthetic value appears to be particularly important in how to resist the erosion of technological civilization and questioning people's ultimate meaning and value. Aesthetic transcendence has been thoroughly discussed both in Chinese and western aesthetic history. After displaying the difficulties faced by current aesthetic, this paper proposes the topic of reconstructing aesthetic value and first starts from the general question up to the analysis and integration of aesthetic value theory. Review and sort out the development of aesthetic issues in Chinese and western aesthetic history and find the way of reconstructing aesthetic value - aesthetic transcendence.Except for "Introduction" and "Conclusion", the whole passage is divided into four chapters:The first chapter excavates dilemma and encounter of contemporary aesthetic, The reason why aesthetic is in trouble is that it is influenced by present factors of post-modernism, consumerism, daily life aesthetic. Aesthetic is inevitably lost and brings a series of bad effects which lead to the mutation of aesthetic value.Chapter II explains some important concepts and content of aesthetic value starting from basic value problems. Meanwhile, it displays present situation of the Chinese and western theory research of aesthetic value and the role that aesthetic plays in our social life ,etc.The third chapter reviews the history of Chinese and western aesthetic value. It takes a comprehensive view of the history of Chinese and western aesthetics research and academic harvest and the development of aesthetic value in contemporary society, we know that aesthetic value is always the unity of truth, good and beauty since ancient times.Chapter IV we can see from above discussion that the reconstruction of aesthetic value need to explore new aesthetic horizon and gain more resources from traditional philosophy and aesthetic theory. Which adheres to cultural identity, rather than take market as the criterion to construct aesthetic value.Conclusion is based on the summary of the whole passage and thinks aesthetic theory should play some role in contemporary society. It gives an objective assessment on the due role that aesthetic theory plays in the current society, The norm function of aesthetic can not be ignored.