TThrough a comparative analysis of diverse texts and contexts, this book offers a cultural history of the interplay between the aesthetic and the political in the formation of personal and collective identity that crystallizes into the Chinese aesthetic of the sublime.
It describes how various kinds of politics are aestheticized and how aesthetic manifestations are bound up with prevalent ideologies and politics. In this book, politics refers to various projects for fashioning a viable self, a workable personal and collective identity in the crisis-ridden history of modern China. These projects include imagining a political subject adapted to the modern nation-state, mobilizing revolutionary masses as subjects of the Communist state, sustaining a unified self despite the challenges to traditional culture, erecting the sublime figure of the revolutionary hero, and, finally, debunking the grand images of the hero and history in post-Mao culture. Throughout, the author seeks to delineate the ways the political masquerades as aesthetic discourse and aesthetic experience.
Covering a wide range of material from fiction, poetry, aesthetics, and political discourse to memoirs, film, and historical documents, the book reconsiders a number of prominent cultural figures, including Wang Guowei, Cai Yuanpei, Lu Xun, Eileen Chang, Mao Zedong, Zhu Guangqian, and Li Zehou. It also analyzes such important cultural features and events as Western influences on the formation of modern Chinese aesthetic discourse, modernist writings, Revolutionary Cinema, the Cultural Revolution, and New Wave Fiction.
An East-West comparative approach informs the analysis, which engages in dialogue with Kant, Hegel, Freud, Marx, and Walter Benjamin, as well as Terry Eagleton and other contemporary critics. The author's interdisciplinary method, which emphasizes the interaction among text, context, and the psyche, both presents new materials and illuminates familiar texts and phenomena from the perspective of the political-aesthetic nexus.
0 有用 DUZQ 2019-09-23 09:28:52
目的在于解构宏大叙事,但对在这一叙事中的被解构者来说是否公平?感觉作者自己也矛盾重重,似为某种motivation驱动。
0 有用 舟上不想卷了 2015-08-12 21:15:02
断断续续一个多月终于啃完了。虽然现在看每一章节的观念都不新鲜了,不过能把这个谱系细致地做出来就挺厉害了吧。很中国思维的英语所以读起来很顺畅,很多分析虽然语言简单但都很清楚,比如比较康德和李泽厚等等。王德威抒情与史诗里提到的大部分材料,从古代文批,到王国维、鲁迅、胡风,到朱光潜、梁宗岱、李泽厚、美学大辩论等等,这本书里都论及了。
0 有用 Luckycider 2022-05-25 11:45:14
作为博论,放在那个时代该框架很启发人。可惜王老师后来另起炉灶了。
0 有用 亦非 2015-07-23 04:41:27
经典之作。
0 有用 秉烛游 2020-03-17 09:35:35
解释了本雅明的暴力美学化,感觉海外中国研究看多了也挺相似?比如第四章跟李海燕的心灵革命
0 有用 Luckycider 2022-05-25 11:45:14
作为博论,放在那个时代该框架很启发人。可惜王老师后来另起炉灶了。
0 有用 不知用何名🍊 2022-01-28 17:14:55
在中國社會歷史政治的語境下談美學崇高。#WUSTL#
0 有用 唧哩呼喃 2021-12-13 13:27:21
美学与政治的密切关系;特别好的一点是把东西方美学的脉络如何产生随历史发展并在近现代通过翻译发生联系梳理得很清楚;有些章节的安排(比如鲁迅和张爱玲放一起)有点莫名;情感/热忱等能量在sublimation的达成和影响中的embodiment还挺有趣的(虽然作者有时候用的psychoanalysis的框架不是完全make sense to me)。
0 有用 凪 2021-07-10 04:05:41
也是我的研究必读书目。
0 有用 orlanmimi 2020-12-25 04:09:30
极好,是目前读过把美学与政治的关系在中国语境下讲得最清楚的一本书。