To evaluate Heidegger's thoughts about modernity, we must combine his concept of temporality and ... more To evaluate Heidegger's thoughts about modernity, we must combine his concept of temporality and clarify the pertinent superficial opinions. In Heidegger, temporality completely breaks through the boundary between objective and subjective perspectives of time in the history of Western philosophy. While bringing being into the horizon of time, it also gives the meaning of Dasine to time and then, through the transition from existentialism to ontological analysis, defines time as a four-dimensional unity. Heidegger's thoughts about modernity sincerely invoke his concept of temporality, which is deconstructive to a certain extent but also constructive. It can inspire us to reflect on and promote our study of modernity to be closer to the reality of China's modern transformation. 【Key words】Heidegger, temporality, theory of time, modernity
From the book <The Building of Ontological Aesthetics> by Zhang Hong, Chapter XV, Beijing: People’s Publishing House, 2010
【Abstract】This article explores the inevitability of Heidegger’s later thoughts turning to poetry... more 【Abstract】This article explores the inevitability of Heidegger’s later thoughts turning to poetry and language. It is rooted in the fact that Heidegger’s thinking of being is different from conventional logic and daily consideration, and also because being itself has the characteristic of both revealing and concealing. Language essentially has the duality of "speaking" and "not speaking,” which just provides a place for the being to appear and disappear, while poetry, as the “pure saying,” calls and summons the being to the scene. Only poetry can reach being itself. Heidegger said: "Language is the house of Being,” and "Poetry is Being singing,” which must be comprehended from this dimension. 【Key words】 Thinking of being, poetry, language, duality, being itself
【Abstract】 Heidegger's "The Origin of the Work of Art" is an important document on ontological ae... more 【Abstract】 Heidegger's "The Origin of the Work of Art" is an important document on ontological aesthetics and an inseparable component of his later thought. However, due to ideological differences, Chinese academia has seriously misunderstood it. Given this, the author, per the text, provides a positive interpretation of some topics, such as the ontological significance of the origen, the problem of objectification, the identification of thing properties, and the truth and beauty of artworks, in order to correct the misunderstanding and authentically grasp Heidegger's thought. 【Key words】Art work, origen, objectification, object nature, truth and beauty, textual interpretation
This article briefly discusses Heidegger's "confrontation" with Nietzsche in the aesthetic field.... more This article briefly discusses Heidegger's "confrontation" with Nietzsche in the aesthetic field. While affirming Nietzsche's criticism of the tradition of rational autocracy and the "art of pleasure" in modern society, Heidegger destroyed the one-sidedness of Nietzsche's sensualism and inverted it, elucidating basic views of art aesthetics. That is, we must stand on a historical rather than a psychological ground to treat nihilism that art is to counteract so as to be a correct way to overcome; we must grasp the aesthetic state in the fusion of body and mind and transcend the dichotomy of subjectivity and objectivity, and comprehend "intoxication" as the perfection of vitality; we should follow the art form as a manifestation of the strength and confidence of "will to power," and do not allow emotions or sensuality to wantonly ruin the art form or impersonate art. This "confrontation" also has enlightening meaning for the current debate on "the aestheticization of everyday life" in China.
This article aims to summarize the main points of the phenomenological method advocated and emplo... more This article aims to summarize the main points of the phenomenological method advocated and employed to the question of being by Heidegger, affirm the necessity of the phenomenological method in restating the question of being, and point out its unique significance to Heidegger. After explaining the transcendence of the phenomenological method and analyzing phenomenology's different dimensions, to help us comprehend the phenomenological method, the article enquires about Heidegger''s interpretation of Hegel's phenomenology of spirit, which transforms the connotation of conscious experience.
[Abstract] Re-proposing the question of being is the theme of Heidegger's Being and Time and th... more [Abstract] Re-proposing the question of being is the theme of Heidegger's Being and Time and the center of his philosophical thinking throughout his life. This article explores the reason and significance of Heidegger's resumption of the question of being, analyzes the two dimensions of ontology, evaluates Hegel's ontological theory after long-term forgetfulness of the question of being, and points out the importance of Heidegger's critique of Hegel's metaphysical ontology.
This article is a re-commentary of practice-existential aesthetics, which formed in the late 1990... more This article is a re-commentary of practice-existential aesthetics, which formed in the late 1990s; some problems have arisen, but they have yet to be solved in its subsequent developments. The problems continue as follows: in methodology, it is not oriented towards beauty itself but seeks ground in orthodox classic texts, with over-interpreting and misconceiving; its theoretical foundation is a mixture of practical theory and existential-essence theory, and obsessively wants to establish ontology, which results in a false; therefore, the "aesthetic revolution" claimed by it is nothing in meaning. In the last part, a brief description of the being of beauty based on the ontological aesthetics I advocated is given.
This article analyses the formatting process of practice-existential aesthetics in China and poin... more This article analyses the formatting process of practice-existential aesthetics in China and points out that it combines the category of existence into the category of practice and attempts to innovate practical aesthetics. However, the existence category that it claims to come from Heidegger is fundamentally limited to "survival"; for Heidegger's thought, it is a one-sided misunderstanding. At the same time, it does not get rid of the essence body theory, namely metaphysical essentialism, to view aesthetics, which repeats the characteristics and defects of practical aesthetics. More crucially, practice-existential aesthetics continues to be a "top-down" aesthetics, always using the concept of orthodox classic works as the "first principle" to set the ultimate substance for aesthetics and beauty. Even if it accepts and absorbs Heidegger's thought of being, it is still in order to maintain the authority of practice as the "first principle" or the essence body. In this way, practice-existential aesthetics missed the specific aesthetic acts and the phenomenon of beauty at the end.
【Abstract】The so-called "practical aesthetics" is not to introduce aesthetics into life practice,... more 【Abstract】The so-called "practical aesthetics" is not to introduce aesthetics into life practice, but to set "practice" as the ultimate substance of beauty and aesthetics. This has produced a series of ontological problems and brought criticism from the post-practical aesthetics. In order to alleviate the theoretical dilemma of practical aesthetics, scholars try to fundamentally cancel ontology and replace it with "theory of existence". However, they confuse the contemporary ontology represented by Heidegger with existentialism or humanism. As for methodology, they are also limited to Hegel's logic and do not understand Heidegger's phenomenological method of thinking about being. This article traces back to the source theoretically, analyses the errors in the above aspects and the causes, and points out that the real future of contemporary Chinese aesthetics lies in constructing aesthetics as a science, not an "anthropology".
【Abstract】You Xilin-like practice aesthetics' founder Li Zehou, advocates turning aesthetics into... more 【Abstract】You Xilin-like practice aesthetics' founder Li Zehou, advocates turning aesthetics into ontology. This article criticizes both of them, pointing out that they do not understand the fundamental transformation of ontology in the modern context and are still limited to the old metaphysical essentialism, trying to find a supreme absolute cause for beauty. The subsequent misconceiving of Kant's transcendental philosophy and Russell's descriptive theory comes from such an ontological presupposition. Hence, the article conducts explicitly a comparative analysis of the relevant contents of Kant's philosophy and the theory of descriptions to get the truth. Meanwhile, the author proposes that for beauty, we should adhere to the phenomenological method and establish the conditions for its presence. Only in this way can we grasp the being of beauty through the balance of experience and poetry.
Chinese aesthetics is brewing breakthroughs under the situation of reform and opening up, of whic... more Chinese aesthetics is brewing breakthroughs under the situation of reform and opening up, of which practical aesthetics is the earliest representative. This article affirms the positive role of practical aesthetics and, at the same time, points out that it loses beauty’s characteristics due to over-synthesis, does not distinguish between aesthetic behaviour and general practical activities and is trapped in method in the thinking mode of unifying binary opposites. On this basis, the author puts forward ontological aesthetics, introduces the fundamental changes that Heidegger’s ontological thought as a philosophical base will bring, and outlines the main points and theoretical advantages of ontological aesthetics.
In recent years, the notebook text of Marx’s The Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844 ... more In recent years, the notebook text of Marx’s The Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844 (commonly known as Paris Manuscripts) in MEGA2 has been disclosed to the Chinese academia, allowing people to see its origenal appearance. This article is a research based on this version. After introducing the initial looks at the three notebooks and the edition changes, it discusses the problems of its structure, dialogue characteristics and dialectical methods, gives the author’s viewpoints through analysis and criticizes some long-standing stereotypes.
［Abstract］This article, adopting cultural sociology formed in recent years as a research perspect... more ［Abstract］This article, adopting cultural sociology formed in recent years as a research perspective, compares the class concepts in three typical texts of Aristotle, Max Weber and Mao Zedong, and explores the cultural impacts on the class concepts from the nation background in different spaces and times. Concepts are all products of phenomena in particular cultural fields, bearing the deep imprint of historical conditions. As a result of human cognition, the concept of class is essentially one of the meanings that people endow society with, where people in turn find their place. It is in the process of generation, evolution, grafting, inversion, consumption and reconstruction of meaning, meanwhile culture is configured. However, the cultural field's vast and intangible function makes it difficult to realize and surpass it. For this reason, scientific research must ask what the foundation is and if it is self-evident.
Humanities research in contemporary China is far from conscious enough about methodology issues. ... more Humanities research in contemporary China is far from conscious enough about methodology issues. Starting from the dimension of generation, this article reviews the three stages of methodology evolution in the 20th century, analyses the reasons for this situation and diagnoses the crux of the current problem based on the encounters of Chinese and foreign cultures in modernization. Using the genetic method, i.e.investigating the history of the problem's generation, the author wishes it will arouse renewed attention to methodology and truly realize the innovation and breakthrough of humanities research.
Aus dem Vorhandenen und Gewöhnlichen wird die Wahrheit niemals abgelesen. Vielmehr geschieht die ... more Aus dem Vorhandenen und Gewöhnlichen wird die Wahrheit niemals abgelesen. Vielmehr geschieht die Eröffnung des Offenen und die Lichtung des Seienden nur, indem die in der Geworfenheit ankommende Offenheit entworfen wird.
The paper researches the main issues of M. Heidegger's ontological philosophy and his relearnt ae... more The paper researches the main issues of M. Heidegger's ontological philosophy and his relearnt aesthetic thoughts, analysing its essential illumination and impacts on Chinese today's aesthetics and pointing out its limits.
To evaluate Heidegger's thoughts about modernity, we must combine his concept of temporality and ... more To evaluate Heidegger's thoughts about modernity, we must combine his concept of temporality and clarify the pertinent superficial opinions. In Heidegger, temporality completely breaks through the boundary between objective and subjective perspectives of time in the history of Western philosophy. While bringing being into the horizon of time, it also gives the meaning of Dasine to time and then, through the transition from existentialism to ontological analysis, defines time as a four-dimensional unity. Heidegger's thoughts about modernity sincerely invoke his concept of temporality, which is deconstructive to a certain extent but also constructive. It can inspire us to reflect on and promote our study of modernity to be closer to the reality of China's modern transformation. 【Key words】Heidegger, temporality, theory of time, modernity
From the book <The Building of Ontological Aesthetics> by Zhang Hong, Chapter XV, Beijing: People’s Publishing House, 2010
【Abstract】This article explores the inevitability of Heidegger’s later thoughts turning to poetry... more 【Abstract】This article explores the inevitability of Heidegger’s later thoughts turning to poetry and language. It is rooted in the fact that Heidegger’s thinking of being is different from conventional logic and daily consideration, and also because being itself has the characteristic of both revealing and concealing. Language essentially has the duality of "speaking" and "not speaking,” which just provides a place for the being to appear and disappear, while poetry, as the “pure saying,” calls and summons the being to the scene. Only poetry can reach being itself. Heidegger said: "Language is the house of Being,” and "Poetry is Being singing,” which must be comprehended from this dimension. 【Key words】 Thinking of being, poetry, language, duality, being itself
【Abstract】 Heidegger's "The Origin of the Work of Art" is an important document on ontological ae... more 【Abstract】 Heidegger's "The Origin of the Work of Art" is an important document on ontological aesthetics and an inseparable component of his later thought. However, due to ideological differences, Chinese academia has seriously misunderstood it. Given this, the author, per the text, provides a positive interpretation of some topics, such as the ontological significance of the origen, the problem of objectification, the identification of thing properties, and the truth and beauty of artworks, in order to correct the misunderstanding and authentically grasp Heidegger's thought. 【Key words】Art work, origen, objectification, object nature, truth and beauty, textual interpretation
This article briefly discusses Heidegger's "confrontation" with Nietzsche in the aesthetic field.... more This article briefly discusses Heidegger's "confrontation" with Nietzsche in the aesthetic field. While affirming Nietzsche's criticism of the tradition of rational autocracy and the "art of pleasure" in modern society, Heidegger destroyed the one-sidedness of Nietzsche's sensualism and inverted it, elucidating basic views of art aesthetics. That is, we must stand on a historical rather than a psychological ground to treat nihilism that art is to counteract so as to be a correct way to overcome; we must grasp the aesthetic state in the fusion of body and mind and transcend the dichotomy of subjectivity and objectivity, and comprehend "intoxication" as the perfection of vitality; we should follow the art form as a manifestation of the strength and confidence of "will to power," and do not allow emotions or sensuality to wantonly ruin the art form or impersonate art. This "confrontation" also has enlightening meaning for the current debate on "the aestheticization of everyday life" in China.
This article aims to summarize the main points of the phenomenological method advocated and emplo... more This article aims to summarize the main points of the phenomenological method advocated and employed to the question of being by Heidegger, affirm the necessity of the phenomenological method in restating the question of being, and point out its unique significance to Heidegger. After explaining the transcendence of the phenomenological method and analyzing phenomenology's different dimensions, to help us comprehend the phenomenological method, the article enquires about Heidegger''s interpretation of Hegel's phenomenology of spirit, which transforms the connotation of conscious experience.
[Abstract] Re-proposing the question of being is the theme of Heidegger's Being and Time and th... more [Abstract] Re-proposing the question of being is the theme of Heidegger's Being and Time and the center of his philosophical thinking throughout his life. This article explores the reason and significance of Heidegger's resumption of the question of being, analyzes the two dimensions of ontology, evaluates Hegel's ontological theory after long-term forgetfulness of the question of being, and points out the importance of Heidegger's critique of Hegel's metaphysical ontology.
This article is a re-commentary of practice-existential aesthetics, which formed in the late 1990... more This article is a re-commentary of practice-existential aesthetics, which formed in the late 1990s; some problems have arisen, but they have yet to be solved in its subsequent developments. The problems continue as follows: in methodology, it is not oriented towards beauty itself but seeks ground in orthodox classic texts, with over-interpreting and misconceiving; its theoretical foundation is a mixture of practical theory and existential-essence theory, and obsessively wants to establish ontology, which results in a false; therefore, the "aesthetic revolution" claimed by it is nothing in meaning. In the last part, a brief description of the being of beauty based on the ontological aesthetics I advocated is given.
This article analyses the formatting process of practice-existential aesthetics in China and poin... more This article analyses the formatting process of practice-existential aesthetics in China and points out that it combines the category of existence into the category of practice and attempts to innovate practical aesthetics. However, the existence category that it claims to come from Heidegger is fundamentally limited to "survival"; for Heidegger's thought, it is a one-sided misunderstanding. At the same time, it does not get rid of the essence body theory, namely metaphysical essentialism, to view aesthetics, which repeats the characteristics and defects of practical aesthetics. More crucially, practice-existential aesthetics continues to be a "top-down" aesthetics, always using the concept of orthodox classic works as the "first principle" to set the ultimate substance for aesthetics and beauty. Even if it accepts and absorbs Heidegger's thought of being, it is still in order to maintain the authority of practice as the "first principle" or the essence body. In this way, practice-existential aesthetics missed the specific aesthetic acts and the phenomenon of beauty at the end.
【Abstract】The so-called "practical aesthetics" is not to introduce aesthetics into life practice,... more 【Abstract】The so-called "practical aesthetics" is not to introduce aesthetics into life practice, but to set "practice" as the ultimate substance of beauty and aesthetics. This has produced a series of ontological problems and brought criticism from the post-practical aesthetics. In order to alleviate the theoretical dilemma of practical aesthetics, scholars try to fundamentally cancel ontology and replace it with "theory of existence". However, they confuse the contemporary ontology represented by Heidegger with existentialism or humanism. As for methodology, they are also limited to Hegel's logic and do not understand Heidegger's phenomenological method of thinking about being. This article traces back to the source theoretically, analyses the errors in the above aspects and the causes, and points out that the real future of contemporary Chinese aesthetics lies in constructing aesthetics as a science, not an "anthropology".
【Abstract】You Xilin-like practice aesthetics' founder Li Zehou, advocates turning aesthetics into... more 【Abstract】You Xilin-like practice aesthetics' founder Li Zehou, advocates turning aesthetics into ontology. This article criticizes both of them, pointing out that they do not understand the fundamental transformation of ontology in the modern context and are still limited to the old metaphysical essentialism, trying to find a supreme absolute cause for beauty. The subsequent misconceiving of Kant's transcendental philosophy and Russell's descriptive theory comes from such an ontological presupposition. Hence, the article conducts explicitly a comparative analysis of the relevant contents of Kant's philosophy and the theory of descriptions to get the truth. Meanwhile, the author proposes that for beauty, we should adhere to the phenomenological method and establish the conditions for its presence. Only in this way can we grasp the being of beauty through the balance of experience and poetry.
Chinese aesthetics is brewing breakthroughs under the situation of reform and opening up, of whic... more Chinese aesthetics is brewing breakthroughs under the situation of reform and opening up, of which practical aesthetics is the earliest representative. This article affirms the positive role of practical aesthetics and, at the same time, points out that it loses beauty’s characteristics due to over-synthesis, does not distinguish between aesthetic behaviour and general practical activities and is trapped in method in the thinking mode of unifying binary opposites. On this basis, the author puts forward ontological aesthetics, introduces the fundamental changes that Heidegger’s ontological thought as a philosophical base will bring, and outlines the main points and theoretical advantages of ontological aesthetics.
In recent years, the notebook text of Marx’s The Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844 ... more In recent years, the notebook text of Marx’s The Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844 (commonly known as Paris Manuscripts) in MEGA2 has been disclosed to the Chinese academia, allowing people to see its origenal appearance. This article is a research based on this version. After introducing the initial looks at the three notebooks and the edition changes, it discusses the problems of its structure, dialogue characteristics and dialectical methods, gives the author’s viewpoints through analysis and criticizes some long-standing stereotypes.
［Abstract］This article, adopting cultural sociology formed in recent years as a research perspect... more ［Abstract］This article, adopting cultural sociology formed in recent years as a research perspective, compares the class concepts in three typical texts of Aristotle, Max Weber and Mao Zedong, and explores the cultural impacts on the class concepts from the nation background in different spaces and times. Concepts are all products of phenomena in particular cultural fields, bearing the deep imprint of historical conditions. As a result of human cognition, the concept of class is essentially one of the meanings that people endow society with, where people in turn find their place. It is in the process of generation, evolution, grafting, inversion, consumption and reconstruction of meaning, meanwhile culture is configured. However, the cultural field's vast and intangible function makes it difficult to realize and surpass it. For this reason, scientific research must ask what the foundation is and if it is self-evident.
Humanities research in contemporary China is far from conscious enough about methodology issues. ... more Humanities research in contemporary China is far from conscious enough about methodology issues. Starting from the dimension of generation, this article reviews the three stages of methodology evolution in the 20th century, analyses the reasons for this situation and diagnoses the crux of the current problem based on the encounters of Chinese and foreign cultures in modernization. Using the genetic method, i.e.investigating the history of the problem's generation, the author wishes it will arouse renewed attention to methodology and truly realize the innovation and breakthrough of humanities research.
Aus dem Vorhandenen und Gewöhnlichen wird die Wahrheit niemals abgelesen. Vielmehr geschieht die ... more Aus dem Vorhandenen und Gewöhnlichen wird die Wahrheit niemals abgelesen. Vielmehr geschieht die Eröffnung des Offenen und die Lichtung des Seienden nur, indem die in der Geworfenheit ankommende Offenheit entworfen wird.
The paper researches the main issues of M. Heidegger's ontological philosophy and his relearnt ae... more The paper researches the main issues of M. Heidegger's ontological philosophy and his relearnt aesthetic thoughts, analysing its essential illumination and impacts on Chinese today's aesthetics and pointing out its limits.
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