Discovering the East in the Confusion of Modernity——Laurence Binyon and Taoist Aesthetics
Since the Enlightenment with the rise of scientism and the decline of religious faith,the intensifying problem of modernity has intensified Europe's dissatisfaction with its own social and cultural structures.In the process of reflecting on and criticizing modernity,Western scholars have not only tried to find ways to resolve the contradictions of modernity from the capitalist society,but have al-so turned to the East in search of a new way of thinking as a means of healing cultural and psychological anxieties.The value of the spirit of Chinese Taoist aesthetics has been rediscovered under the contempo-rary issue of reflecting on modernity.Laurence Binyon,a British poet,art critic and sinologist,has not only accelerated the historical process of Europe's reassessment of the value of Chinese art and aesthet-ics by promoting the spirit of Taoist aesthetics through the carrier of Chinese art,but also reversed and corrected the imbalance of the subject-object view of the universe and the supremacy of the scientific principle of the age of the artistic view of the West,which has contributed to the absorption of Chinese art aesthetics by European modernism.
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