On Urban Aesthetics Thought Of Benjamin

Benjamin is an excellent literary theorist in the 20 th century in the West.He had a wide range of interests in his whole life,and his research thought involved many aspects,such as literary criticism,translation view,aura concept,redemption aesthetics,modernity view,mechanical reproduction and film as well as production aesthetics.However,the origin of his thought is closely related to capitalist modernity city.Studying Benjamin’s urban aesthetics and comprehending its aesthetic connotations will help reveal modern capitalist cities;it also has a literary critical significance that cannot be ignored in the creation of contemporary Chinese urban literature,and has practical inspiration that cannot be ignored in the construction of modern Chinese cities significance.The text is divided into three parts: introduction,body and conclusion.The introduction mainly elaborates the research background,literature review,research methods and ideas,innovation and research significance of the topic.Try to explore the aesthetic structure and connotation of Benjamin’s urban aesthetics from both theoretical innovation and practical innovation,and ponder the critical significance of his urban aesthetics to Chinese contemporary urban literature and its practical significance to the construction of modern urbanization.Finally,it provides a new perspective for Benjamin’s urban aesthetic research.The first chapter mainly discusses the origin of Benjamin’s urban aesthetics thought from two aspects.On the one hand,it is the emergence and development process of western cities,on the other hand,the emergence and development of urban aesthetics.The emergence and development process of western cities is the realistic basis for the formation of Benjamin’s urban aesthetics.The emergence and development of urban aesthetics as a theoretical discipline provided a theoretical basis for the construction of Benjamin’s urban aesthetics thoughts.With the rapid development of urbanization and the continuous enrichment of aesthetics,urban aesthetics has gradually become an independent subject,entering the public’s field of vision,and providing the soil for the birth of Benjamin’s urban aesthetics.The second chapter builds the aesthetic structure of Benjamin’s urban aesthetic thought from the three dimensions of aesthetic subject,aesthetic object and aesthetic experience of the unity of subject and object.The masses and wanderers are the most important aesthetic subjects that constitute Benjamin’s aesthetic thoughts.They represent two completely different types of people in the city.The space and imagery in the city are the objects of perception of urban aesthetics and trigger shocking effects.Under the stimulation of this experience,Benjamin explores the way of salvation of urban aesthetic modernity through "destroying" the thinking mechanism of urban writing.The third chapter discusses the influence and significance of Benjamin’s urban aesthetics thought from two major aspects.On the one hand,the western urban aesthetics theories inherited and surpassed Benjamin’s urban aesthetics.Benjamin’s attention to space and the image of urban life inspired the spatial turn and the turn of daily life in western urban theories.On the other hand,Benjamin’s urban aesthetics has its literary criticism significance for the creation of Chinese urban literature and its practical significance for the construction of urbanization in China.In the sense of literary criticism,Benjamin’s urban aesthetics’ concern for people and individual survival experience inspires us to pay attention to individual living conditions and the space and image of the city when creating contemporary urban literature.In a practical sense,in the process of modern urbanization in China,we must pay attention to the construction and presentation of urban beauty,and the daily life and survival experience of residents.Concluding remarks summarize and reflect on the full text,sum up my own contributions to the topic of "Benjamin Urban Aesthetics",reflect on the deficiencies and defects in the research process,and once again clarify the literary and sociological significance of Benjamin Urban Aesthetics.The innovation of the thesis lies in theoretical innovation and practical innovation.Theoretical innovation is embodied in the construction of the aesthetic structure of Benjamin’s urban aesthetics and the exploration of the transcendence of Western urban aesthetics theories on Benjamin’s urban aesthetic thought;the practical innovation is embodied in the discussion of the significance of literary criticism of the practice of contemporary Chinese urban literary creation and the discussion of modern urbanization Discussion on the enlightening significance of construction practice.