The Re-Enchantment of Aesthetics: Back to Metaphysics

Liu Xuguang

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art ›› 2014, Vol. 34 ›› Issue (3) : 36-48.

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Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art ›› 2014, Vol. 34 ›› Issue (3) : 36-48.
Issue in Focus: Debates on Metaphysical Aesthetics

The Re-Enchantment of Aesthetics: Back to Metaphysics

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Only through the perspective of metaphysics can the unique nature of transcendence and idealism of aesthetic activities be explained. Without the setting of idea and universality by metaphysics, engendering the judgment of appreciation is impossible; therefore, aesthetic is metaphysics' child. Only in the thinking of metaphysics, engendering aesthetic is possible. The absence of metaphysics must result in the lack of ideality, so art sink into live, and aesthetic descends to be pleasant sensation. The paper claims that aesthetic will be re-enchanted through re-instating the dimension of metaphysics into aesthetic appreciation.

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aesthetic appreciation / metaphysics / re-enchantment

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