On Liu Gangji's Practical Ontological Aesthetics as an Advance of Practical Aesthetics

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art ›› 2013, Vol. 33 ›› Issue (1): 68-75.

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On Liu Gangji's Practical Ontological Aesthetics as an Advance of Practical Aesthetics

Zhu Liyuan, Zhang Wenying

Department of Chinese Language and Literature, Fudan University

Online:2013-01-25 Published:2013-02-20
About author:Zhu Liyuan is a professor at Department of Chinese Language and Literature, Fudan University. His academic research focuses on theory of literature and arts, aesthetics, with an emphasis on literary theory and aesthetics theory, Western aesthetics, Marxist literary theory, and comparative studies of aesthetics and literary theory. Zhang Wenying is a Ph.D. candidate in Department of Chinese Language and Literature, Fudan University. Her research interests cover aesthetics and literary theory, focusing on Western aesthetics, Western literary and art theory.

Abstract

Abstract: In 1980s, Liu Gangji put forward and established practical ontological aesthetics as a result of reflection and critique of mechanistic and perceptual materialism. He re-interpreted the Marxist view of practice as that which is participated by both the subject and the object, and elevated practice from epistemological level to ontological level. In this way, his conceptualization surpassed the dichotomy between subject and object and transcended the material ontology in the track of old materialism which to this day is still followed by some scholars. Liu Gang Ji's concept of practice not only initiated an advance in Marxist aesthetics of practicum but also played an important role in the establishment and development of contemporary Chinese aesthetics.

Key words: practical ontology, Liu Gangji, aesthetics, Marxism, material ontology

Zhu Liyuan, Zhang Wenying. On Liu Gangji's Practical Ontological Aesthetics as an Advance of Practical Aesthetics[J]. Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art, 2013, 33(1): 68-75.

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