Philosophical Foundation,Dominant Concepts,Orientation of Literature and Art——Three Historical Achievements in the Construction of the Academic System of the People's Re-public of China's Literary and Art Theory
Over the past 75 years since the founding of the People's Republic of China,the construction of the academic system of China's literary and art theory has been unremittingly pursuing and pushing for-ward toward the innovation of the autonomous knowledge theoretical system,and has made historical a-chievements that cannot be ignored.As far as the major ones are concerned,there are three main historical achievements:firstly,it lays down the philosophical foundation of Marxism,provides a scientific worldview and methodology for the theoretical studies of contemporary Chinese literature and art,and discusses and expounds the anthropological ontological significance of literature and art and its attributes of social pro-duction from the point of view of the theory of practice;secondly,on the core issues of the essence and characteristics of literature and art,three dominant concepts of literature and art have been formed,name-ly,literature and art are reflections of real life,literature and art are a kind of social ideology,literature and art are a special way for human beings to master the world,etc.,and efforts have been made to integrate these dominant concepts in a systematic way so as to provide theoretical resources and ideological guidance for concrete literary and art creation and criticism practices;thirdly,the orientation of literature and art ser-ving the people has been established in theory and practice,and the people's subject position in literature and art has been firmly established by taking the people as the centre of attention,so that the Chinese Marxist theory of literature and art has been developed into a brand-new"people's aesthetics"marked by"people".