On the Triple Principles in Bloch's"?sthetik des Vor-Scheins"
Bloch's"Ästhetik des Vor-Scheins"consists of three interrelated principles,one of which is the principle of aesthetic symbolism.Bloch derived an aesthetic symbolic meaning for the term"anticipatory illumination"from the German words"Vor-Schein"to mean that literature and art possess the function of imitating the future good condition in advance,forming an aesthetic phenomenon as if they had actually been realized.We should understand and grasp"Ästhetik des Vor-Scheins"in the light of Bloch's principle of aesthetic symbolic semantics and aesthetic activities and then invest it with a conceptual connotation;The second is the philosophical principle of"process".Bloch emphasized"process"as the locus of"reality,"enabling aesthetic anticipation through the proceduring of the aesthetic subject,the aesthetic object,and the aesthetic ideal.This allows for the pre-figurative realization of artistic and literary aesthetics,revealing its aesthetic mechanisms;The third is Marxist principle.Bloch,grounded in the scientific stance of Marxist dia-lectical materialism,highlights its ideological essence through aesthetic holistic synergy,critique of aesthetic modernity,and the pursuit of an aesthetic vision.These triple principles originate from life,truth and ideal respectively and interconnect one another via aesthetic activities,and correspond to conceptual connotation,aesthetic mechanism and the essence of thought in terms of aesthetics formation,which jointly construct his"Ästhetik des Vor-Scheins"from both logic and content.
Ernst BlochÄsthetik des Vor-Scheinstheoretical composition