Zhu Guangqian ( ct.upr . 朱光潜 , pinyin : Zhū Guāngqián ) is a well-known Chinese expert in the field of aesthetics , literature and art . The founder of modern Chinese aesthetics as an independent scientific discipline [1] .
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| Date of Birth | September 19, 1897 |
| Place of Birth | Tongcheng, Anhui Province, China |
| Date of death | March 6, 1986 (88 years old) |
| Place of death | Beijing, China |
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The works of Zhu Guangqian had a great influence on the development of Chinese aesthetics. Thanks to his translations, as well as his essay entitled The History of Western Aesthetics ( Chinese trad. 學 美西方 學 , manage . 西方 美学 学 ), the Chinese scientific community had the opportunity to study the Western model of aesthetic teaching.
Zhu Guangqian is a follower of the Italian philosopher Benedetto Croce .
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Biography
Zhu Guangqian was born in Tongcheng , Anhui Province in 1897. After graduating from high school, in 1917 he left for Wuchang (district of Wuhan City, Hubei Province ) for admission to a teacher’s college. After studying there for one year, Zhu Guangqian, thanks to the support of the Ministry of Education, enters the University of Hong Kong , where he studies English-language literature, psychology and biology .
In 1925 he received a state scholarship and was sent to the University of Edinburgh , where, among other things, he studied the history of art and the history of Europe. Since 1928, for some time he studied at the University of London . In 1931, Zhu Guangqian went to Paris and, after a couple of years of study at the University of Strasbourg , received a doctorate in literature. In the same year, he returns to his homeland and begins to lecture at Peking University .
Until 1946, Zhu Guangqian also taught at other universities in China: Tsinghua , Sichuan University, and Wuhan University. His lectures are devoted to the history of literary criticism, the psychology of art, as well as the largest Western writers. In 1946, he became Dean of the Faculty of Western Languages at Peking University, and in 1949, he became a member of the board of the All-China Association of Literature and Art and chairman of the Chinese Society of Aesthetics.
Views
In the 1930-1940s, Zhu Guangqian adheres to the point of view that aesthetic feeling does not affect the utilitarian sphere, but comes from direct perception , thereby not needing concepts . Therefore, Zhu Guangqian believed that aesthetic experience is an experience of direct figurative perception.
In the 1950s, he delivered his doctrine on the nature of beauty , in which beauty is presented as an expression of the unity of objective and subjective factors. At the same time, by objective factors, he understood objective objects and phenomena, and by subjective ones - the emotional sphere and subjective forms of cognition.
In the 1960s, Zhu Guangqian, in his philosophical constructions, focuses on the Marxist concept - production practice , through which the objective world and subjective human activity can be connected.
Works
Works
- "Conversations about the beautiful" / "Tan Mei" ( Chinese trad. 談 美 , ex. 美 ), 1932
- Psychology of Tragedy / Beiju Xinlisue ( Chinese trad. К 心理學 , ex. 心理学 ), 1933
- "Psychology of Art" / "Weni Xinlisue" ( Chinese trad. 文藝 心理學 , manage . 文艺 心理学 ), 1936
- "The History of Western Aesthetics" / "Sifan Meisue Shi" ( Chinese trad. 西方 美學 史 , ex. 西方 美学 史 ), 1963
Translations
Zhu Guangqian translated into Chinese a number of significant Western works on aesthetics, including Plato 's Dialogues (1963), Hegel's Lectures on Aesthetics (1959-1981), and B. The Essence of Aesthetics by B. Croce (1947).