Abstract
This paper starts its investigation from the perspective of discourse legitimacy with respect to the structural transformation of contemporary social culture and the transfiguration of the mechanism of discourse production. It tries to trace the working logic underlying the historical development of the theory of aesthetic ideology and map out how its legitimacy is produced, ossified and trapped into crisis. The theory of aesthetic ideology was formed in the 1980s, and this paper takes its discursive structure, attribute and function as obvious symptoms of "modernity." Due to the fracture of "modernity," the transformation of socio-cultural structure and the transfiguration of discourse production mechanism after the 1980s, the theory as part of the discourse paradigm of "modernity" slipped into anxiety and poverty of theoretical interpretation. The paper reflects on the crisis of the legitimacy and offers some discourse modification to theory of aesthetic ideology.
First Page
148
Last Page
155
Recommended Citation
Li, Yanfeng. 2013. "Cultural Turn and the Legitimacy of the Theory of Contemporary Chinese Aesthetic Ideology." Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art 33, (5): pp.148-155. https://tsla.researchcommons.org/journal/vol33/iss5/4
