Abstract
Marx's shift of focuses first from the essence of beauty to the formation of beauty and then from the relationship between art, society and life to the liberation feeling and sensibility undermines the traditional aesthetics from the metaphysical aspect and promotes the liberation of sensibility in the 20th-century aesthetics. Marx's political economy reveals various contradictions of capitalist industrial civilization and constructs a perspective of critique and methodology to analyze the capitalist culture, which establishes the foundation for the socio-cultural turn of criticism in the 20th-century aesthetics. The relations dealt with in Marx's aesthetics have been developed, revised, and questioned or challenged, which not only expands the research into Marx's aesthetic thoughts but also helps to establish Marxist aesthetics. The development has become an issue in both hermeneutical studies and the re-creation of reality.
First Page
21
Last Page
26
Recommended Citation
Wang, Zhenglong. 2013. "Marx and the Problems of 20th Century Aesthetics." Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art 33, (5): pp.21-26. https://tsla.researchcommons.org/journal/vol33/iss5/12
