Abstract
Metaphysical aesthetics appears to be a countercurrent to contemporary aesthetics, but it is actually an effort to find a direction in constructing aesthetic ideals, as a backwash and critique of the unfortunate fact that contemporary aesthetics has ignored metaphysics. From the perspective of aesthetic critique, this may be the right track of metaphysics. However, from the perspective of argumentation systems based on its theoretical resources, it may be conservative and foundationally unstable as it may lead to the establishment of an ideal aesthetics and further point to a setting up of some faith. What the Aesthetics of Elimination tries to eliminate is not all the concepts but the aesthetical construction based on idealism. Since this construction comes from Kantian appreciation judgment, it is imperative to expose the mystification of aesthetics in Kantian appreciation judgment. The Aesthetics of Elimination aims at a critique of the construction of metaphysical aesthetics, hoping to bring aesthetics back to language use. With this aim, it can both undermine the systematic construction of aesthetics and retain the hope of metaphysics.
First Page
49
Last Page
56
Recommended Citation
Wang, Feng. 2014. "The Track and Off-track of Metaphysical Aesthetics: with a Discussion of "Elimination" of Elimination Aesthetics." Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art 34, (3): pp.49-56. https://tsla.researchcommons.org/journal/vol34/iss3/17
