A Criticism of Walter Pater's Aesthetic Theory of Renaissance
The article criticizes the British aesthetician in the second half of the 19th century Walter Pater's aesthetic theory of renaissance from the perspective of critical theory.Methodologically following Hegelian dialectical reciprocity,Pater in his aesthetic work Renaissance integrates subjective aesthetics from Hegel with formalistic aesthetics represented by Kant as well as the aesthetic spirit in ancient Greece and Italian Renaissance with the aesthetic vanguardism of Modernism.On the basis of sublating John Ruskin's aesthetics of truth he puts forward his aesthetic theory of renaissance purported with the four dimensions of aesthetic criticism,artistic form,culture and human aesthetic life.His aesthetic theory of renaissance is rooted in European civilization of secular humanism instead of Christianity and goes to the European civilizational human instead of divine source—ancient Greek spirit of the trinity of human nature,humanism and humanity.In European civilization intellectual segregation is repetitively broken up by intellectual and cultural flowerings and in different ages ancient Greek spirit obstinately and resiliently baptizes and integrates miscellaneous thoughts and cultures full of discrepancy and discrimination.
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