A Study Of Ian McEwan's Aesthetic Salvation Thought

From German Romanticism to today,Aesthetic Salvation has always been a hot topic in modern aesthetics.With the decline of religion,it is difficult for God to take on the responsibility of saving people.Instead of religion,aesthetics takes on the responsibility of saving the individual and the real world.Modern scholars research on the Aesthetic Salvation most focus on Romantic Aesthetics which from Kant,Schiller,Hagel to Schopenhauer and Nietzsche,Max Weber and The Frankfurt school which represented by Adorno,Marcuse and Harbermas.The exploration of the Aesthetic Salvation by these philosophers not only makes salvation function of aesthetic universally acknowledged,but also enriches the connotation of Aesthetic Salvation.Ian Mc Ewan grew up in 1960 s,he has a clear understanding of the human spirit crisis and the social reality crisis.Like many sages,he hopes to save the real crisis through Aesthetic Salvation.Unlike others,Ian Mc Ewan has his own profound thinking of Aesthetic Salvation,Ian Mc Ewan put it into his own creative practice,make it into the specific field of creation from the field of pure speculation.Therefore,it is necessary to research Ian Mc Ewan's thought of Aesthetic Salvation.Based on above-mentioned reason,this article will analyze Ian Mc Ewan's thought of Aesthetic Salvation through three chapters.The first is the background of Ian Mc Ewan's thought of Aesthetic Salvation;the second is the construction of Ian Mc Ewan's thought of Aesthetic Salvation;the last is the significance and limitations of Ian Mc Ewan's thought of Aesthetic Salvation.This article from the above threeaspects to analyze Ian Mc Ewan's thought of Aesthetic Salvation,in order to let people understand his thought of Aesthetic Salvation.The first chapter analyzes the background of Ian Mc Ewan's thought of Aesthetic Salvation:By carding western Aesthetic Salvation thought and analysis of British social crisis,it is not difficult to find that Ian Mc Ewan's thought of Aesthetic Salvation is not only a continuation of the German Romanticism,but also a way to save the social crisis.The second chapter is about the construction of Ian Mc Ewan's thought of Aesthetic Salvation.With Mc Ewan's concern group as a starting point,find out the common character of the redeemed people: lose themselves,lose their faith,And further analysis the redeemed people,to find reasons of individual crises.It is found that the hidden reasons behind the society,family and individual all point to the erosion of instrumental reason.On this basis,Ian Mc Ewan put forward the Aesthetic as a way of salvation,and elaborated in detail how the Aesthetic salvation.The third chapter elaborates the significance and limitations of Ian Mc Ewan's thought of Aesthetic Salvation.Research Ian Mc Ewan's thought of Aesthetic Salvation in the history of the development of western Aesthetic Salvation thought,it not only shows its unique practical significance,but also finds its limitations.The aim of this study is to provide a reference for the further perfection of Aesthetic Salvation.This article analyzes Ian Mc Ewan's thought from the overall,In order to find out his thought of Aesthetic Salvation which is throughout,discover the unique characteristics and significance of Ian Mc Ewan's thought of Aesthetic Salvation,in order to provide reference for the further development of Aesthetic Salvation.