Research On The Evolution Of Zeng Fanren's Aesthetic Thought And The Value Of Subjiect Construction

The exploration of Mr.Fanren Zeng in aesthetic field is extensive and full of charming philosophy.And his research results in aesthetic field has led a new fashion of the era in China's aesthetics.From the perspective of the binary relation between synchrony and diachrony,Zeng's research has presented different emphasis in different periods.In brief,at the first stage of involving in aesthetics,he mainly explored ‘beauty' and the essence of art under the principle of Marx's historical materialism.And based on specific realities of China,he gave analysis and evaluation of materialism by putting all possible aesthetic phenomena into the development of social history with certain precondition,which was an epistemology inquiry of the abstract ‘inner essence of beauty' and ‘concept of beauty'.Since the 1980 s,Zeng's aesthetic thoughts started to present apparent changes: on the one hand,his research focus turned to aesthetic education;on the other hand,in theory,he tended to combine aesthetic theories with real life a lot and applied the ideas of ontology with or without consciousness,which was the combination and unity of ‘beauty' and literary practice.Such a shift was a prologue to humanity's regression and changed ‘cultivating professional artists' to ‘cultivating life artists'.Compared to the previous stage,it seemed that Zeng began to ponder and pay attention to human beings' existential issues.In the new century,he has extended his aesthetic research in ecological aesthetics,which is a sign of significant leap for Zeng in the field of aesthetic theory.During this period,he has began to explore the fundamental issue of human beings that is the existential issue in ecological aesthetics and has connected the abstract ‘aesthetics' to real life closely to construct a modern aesthetic system that is accordant with China's realities.In his long academic life,Zeng has always been viewing ‘aesthetics' with the standpoint of development and looking for effective ways to solve the problems between society and people's lives through abstract aesthetics in social development.Although his research perspectives of aesthetics changed a lot,there always has been a constant essence in his whole research---the issue of promoting human beings' spirit.Throughout Zeng's aesthetic thoughts,his all theory constructions and efforts are for the solution of spiritual existential plight of modern people: from the wish of ‘aesthetic survival' delivered by literary aesthetics and the research aim ‘cultivating life artists' in aesthetic education to the subsequent research of ecological aesthetics,the core has always been exploring the aesthetic redemption ways for modern people to promote the mental state of living in criticism.With the support of such a constant core of spiritual sublimation,Zeng replied differently in different times,and his aesthetic thought has been enriched when it transcends itself continually.His aesthetic theories occupy a very important position and make great differences in the history of modern aesthetics and have significant implications and positive influence for the construction of aesthetic discipline with Chinese characteristics.