A Study Of Croce’s Expressionism Aesthetics

Benedetto Croce(1866--1952)was an Italian philosopher,aesthetician,linguist,literary critic and historian,born in Naples.As westerners this philosophy ideological trend of the 20 th century,a pioneer thinkers and main representative of modern western expressionist aesthetics,groce in general linguistics as a science and aesthetics "(Estetica internet-service scienza e linguistica espressiva generale.1902)in the" art intuition is a performance "with a detailed explanation of aesthetics and aesthetic and logic,history,and has carried on the distinction between economics and ethics,construct the spirit of the whole philosophy system.Croce,with a spirit of exploration,has made great achievements in the fields of aesthetics,history,philosophy and literary criticism,especially his expressionist aesthetic thoughts,which had a great impact on western aesthetics in the 20 th century.Croce’s expressionist aesthetic view provided the theoretical basis for the expressionism and intuitionism aesthetic thoughts and artistic thoughts in the early 20 th century in the west.Croce advocated the independence of art and proposed the close relationship between the philosophy of language and aesthetics,which influenced the "linguistic turn" of western literary theory in the 20 th century.After Croce’s aesthetics was translated and introduced into China by Mr.Zhu Guangqian in the 1930 s,it has exerted a profound influence on the Chinese modern and contemporary aesthetics field.In addition to the introduction and conclusion,the main body of this paper is composed of six chapters.The introduction mainly includes three parts: the source and significance of the topic,the combing of the current research situation at home and abroad,the main content of this paper and the problems to be solved.First chapter comb the groce life works,and to pursue their thought theory origin,its theory source is mainly composed of four parts: 1,groce life and academic road 2,Italy two aesthetic tradition influence on groce 3,Germany classical philosophers to the impact of aesthetic system construction groce.4.The influence of Humboldt,Hamann and other linguists’ thoughts on Croce’s philosophy of language.Through the combing of Croce’s life,academic path and theoretical sources,we can better understand Croce’s aesthetic thought and its humanistic significance.The second chapter mainly explains the philosophical basis of Croce’s aesthetic thought,namely his philosophy of spirit.It mainly discusses the essence,connotation and characteristics of philosophy of spirit.Croce stressed that "all history is the current history" and stressed the development and change of history,so the philosophy of spirit is also the philosophy of history.The third chapter mainly discusses the core idea of Croce’s expressionism aesthetics,namely the view of art.It mainly explains the main connotation of Croce’s expressionism aesthetics from three aspects: the essence of art(art and intuitive image,art and language expression),the characteristics of art and the appreciation of art.As the founder of expressionism aesthetics,Croce takes "art is intuition and expression" as his basic aesthetic thought and discusses it on this basis.The fourth chapter explains the relationship between Croce’s aesthetics and philosophy of language from his philosophy of language and his "unity of linguistics and aesthetics",the two theoretical propositions and their internal connections.First,it compares croce’s philosophy of language with the thoughts of contemporary linguists in order to highlight the uniqueness of croce’s philosophy of language,and then explains the proposition of "the unity of linguistics and aesthetics" from three aspects: the expressiveness of aesthetics and language,the unity of aesthetics and language,and the creativity of aesthetics and language.The fifth chapter discusses the application of Croce’s aesthetics in literary studies and reveals his literary criticism theory and practice.Mainly from attaches great importance to the work of the feelings of authenticity,emphasize the distinction between "poem" and "literature",the criticism of text language focus,specific methods from four aspects to illustrate groce literary criticism theory,then through the groce of Dante,ariosto’s novels,poetry pirandello Lou’s drama criticism practice to demonstrate to the criticism thought.The sixth chapter mainly elaborates the influence of Croce’s expressionist aesthetic thought,which is divided into three parts: the influence on other expressionist aestheticists,and the influence on Chinese modern and contemporary aesthetics as the forerunner of the "linguistic turn" of western literary theory in the20 th century.The conclusion mainly includes: the theoretical contribution and theoretical personality of Croce’s aesthetic thought,its influence on the "linguistic turn" of western literary theory in the 20 th century,and its significance to Chinese modern and contemporary literary aesthetics...