Aesthetic Modernity As The Domain Of Aesthetic Thinking Of Madame De Stael

The article aims to research Madame de Sta(e|¨)l's aesthetics thoughts from the visual field of aesthetics modernity. Modernity of aesthetics was one of the important components in the course of western world modernity, by relocating the beauty and art, it established the legalization of art itself and the unique aesthetics value, and corrected and redeemed the internal crisis of enlightenment modernity. Because Madame de Sta(e|¨)l lived in the enlightenment times, there are new meaning and value to research her aesthetics opinions under the background of aesthetics modernity.Madame de Sta(e|¨)l thought the occurrence and the development of the literature and art had the close relationship with social environment, she got rid of literature imitating theory and the subjective visual angle of literature scanning since ancient Greece, reviewed the nature and character of literature and art themselves with the objective society environmentalism, divided differences of literature from the angle of areas, and she insisted the literature and art had their own growing process, stressed the self-discipline nature of them.Madame de Sta(e|¨)l initiated the romanticism criticism methods, canonized Reich national culture, stressed the performance, imagination, feeling and creativeness, relocated the value and measurement standards of literature and art from the angle of aesthetics modernity, spread the Reich's latter-day literature and art with cosmopolitism attitude, defined the modern humanity as immensely abundant rational and emotional multi-unifications, and she redeemed the humanity absence and the deviation between the human being and nature in enlightenment modernity from the angle of aesthetics.Madame de Sta(e|¨)l located the modern female as self-control and independent existence, she criticized the idea that the women were taken as men's appendant in traditional masculine power society, criticized the oppression and restriction to the women by the latter-day wedlock system, emphasized the independence consciousness and self-awareness, and tried improving women's social status and right in theory and creation.Madame de Sta(e|¨)l's aesthetics idea had great significance and contributions in the establishing course of western aesthetics modernity.