Journal of Jishou University(Social Sciences) ›› 2010, Vol. 31 ›› Issue (5): 16-21.

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On Social Beauty and Its Post-modern Turn

  

  1.  (Department of Chinese Language and Literature,Fudan University,Shanghai 200433,China)
  • Online:2010-09-15 Published:2012-03-16

Abstract: As one state of the beauties and “specialty product”as Chinese aesthetics,social beauty once triggered intense discussion,study and publicity.It has come to its stagnation after the development of half a century.However,in the new century,western aesthetics began to pay attention to life,society and nature,and began to screed the boundaries of life,arts,society and nature,and put forward the ideas of “aestheticization of everyday life”,“positive aesthetics” and “landscape aesthetics”,which share the same appeals of the times and aesthetic position with modern China’s social beauty.Meanwhile,as the development of post-modernism and the affect of post-modern aesthetics,social beauty has developed to a new constructive state,which advocates a free,pluralistic and harmonious aesthetic concept,that is,a ecological aesthetics in a broad sense.

Key words: social beauty, aestheticization of everyday life, post-modernism, freedom, pluralism, harmony, ecological aesthetics

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