The "Distance" Of Simmel Esthetics Thought

In spite of the alignment, beauty of the research at home and abroad have had many,but from the aesthetic point of view to look beautiful, are often been neglected byscholars. Alignment of beauty, aesthetic thought of the existing research more focused onthe various social fragments, or focus in his sociology thought, and most of the studiesare some sporadic or scattered in all kinds of books and papers. Between this, the paperchoose the positioning as a cultural Simmel aesthetes, trying to align the aestheticsresearch as a small supplement, hope by aligning the concept of "distance", analyzes therole of distance in art and social life aligned beauty, the aesthetic thoughts of simplecombing, finally, for the people’s life situation put forward a kind of aesthetic redemptionstrategy. Aesthetic Simmel stance is based on the distance with reality and unique tragicworld view, which is the main idea for paper and important clues.First of all, in the introduction, I’ll introduce the lifetime of Simmel, hisachievements, status, and his influence in a nutshell.Paper first chapter discusses the root causes of the concept of "distance". First of all,the "distance" is in the face of the spread of a money economy Simmel inevitable choice.The invasion of the modern life monetary economy, led to the extreme quantitative,average life, not only that the currency is transformed from means people chasing target,the value of the thing itself is ignored, people in the materialized society is merelynegative freedom. Think Simmel in order to get rid of the erosion of a money economy,modern people have to choose from, keep a certain distance with a money economy,many return to their own heart to see, don’t be materialized civilization corrosion. In themodern city life, strange became the norm, think this is actually the Simmel in people ofa kind of inevitable choice of modern urban life, alien is kept a certain distance fromeach other, because only so that people not be tired by the trifles of life, will giveyourself a hidden harbour, more take care of your own heart.From the aesthetic sense, the idea of "distance" of Simmel from art and life anddiscussing the aesthetic experience on two levels, so the paper in the second chapterdiscusses the aesthetic experience of modern life. From two representational of fashion and adventure areas proved that created the individual and the distance between life, tosome extent is the stereotype the transcendence of life, the aesthetic experience ofmodern life.The third chapter carries on the second chapter, from the field of modern artalignment, beauty of the "distance" ideas are discussed. First of all, from the Angle ofmodern art is introduced to the concept of "distance" Simmel’s definition, more Simmelfrom the perspective of aesthetic and art to explain the connotation of the distance. Hethinks that distance is a relationship between people and people and things, the essenceof the distance is that it creates a relationship between subject and object, also is a kind ofself and environment relationship. Second, the second section discusses the Chinese andforeign modern art in the distance of the two kinds of forms: art symmetry andself-discipline. In the third quarter and then discusses the inner distance of two kinds offorms: artistic style and artistic form. Finally through the above analysis of distance inthe modern art forms, the conclusion is obtained that in the materialization of modernsociety; the distance is also a kind of redemption of modern art.The fourth chapter uses two angles of his ideas. The first is to the influence of thewestern Marxist. From Gramsci’s "distance" to Adorno’s "negative society" can be seenclearly influenced by his beauty, traces. In addition, from the view of our present life ispointed out that "distance", for modern people in a plight is an effective strategy to save.The last part is conclusion. Focused on the individual by Simmel’s influence on theindividual personality of modern life and individual survival state and psychologicalexperience, through the distance to realize the modern aesthetic redemption, there arestill important value in the moment.