Abstract
The British empiricist tradition is very important in Zhu Guangqian's aesthetics, which has become both the background for him to accept and the resource to revise Benedetto Croce. The study of the British associationist school on how associations worked helped to bypass the distinction made by formalistic aesthetics between aesthetic appreciation, science and morality, which also informed Zhu Guangqian's reflection over the relationship between literature and morality and led to Zhu's revision of the formalist aesthetics' overemphasis on the aesthetic autonomy. By integrating the British empiricist tradition with the spirit of Li and Yue in Chinese Confucian tradition, Zhu Guangqian constructed his unique aesthetic of emotion and promoted it as a political endeavor.
First Page
61
Last Page
66
Recommended Citation
Jin, Lang. 2012. "Zhu Guangqian and British Empiricist Tradition and his Revisions over Benedetto Croce." Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art 32, (6): pp.61-66. https://tsla.researchcommons.org/journal/vol32/iss6/18
