关键词:  , 法国美学； 古典主义； 美之学

Abstract: Modern French aesthetics can be identified as a classicist aesthetic system. As a modern nationstate, France developed its own classicist culture during the 17th century, which then dominated the general knowledge in Europe. Baumgarton’s proposal of aesthetica was followed by a halfcentury resistance against the discipline of aesthetics among the French intellectual circles. However, pushed by the German achievements in aesthetics, French aesthetics began its disciplinary exploration from the 19th century. On the one hand, it assimilated the German classical aesthetics. On the other, it returned to and carried forward its own tradition, that is, the science of the beautiful. This disciplinary process has undergone a qualitative transformation thanks to the engagement of positivism. By sorting out the representative works of the main estheticians during this period, this article shows the ways in which they connect to one another intertextually. Frederick C. Beiser advocates the return to Leibniz and Lessing’s tradition of rationalist aesthetics, to which French classicist modern aesthetics is related. This reminds us that the introduction of the perspective of “national aesthetics” may reanimate the universal history of aesthetics and add new dimensions thereof.

Key words: French aesthetics; , classicism, science du beauty