Aesthetic Consciousness

Zhu, Zhirong

doi:10.1007/978-981-16-7747-2_6

Zhirong Zhu³

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Abstract

Aesthetic consciousness refers to the conscious state of the mind in aesthetic activities. As a perceptual ideology, aesthetic consciousness is an aesthetic experience that is realized and systematized. It includes the subject’s aesthetic perception ability, way of thinking, and aesthetic ideals. It is based on physiological pleasure, formed on the basis of repeated fusion between mind and matter, and identity of the object and self, and the psychological characteristics created under the influence of various social life factors, so it is influenced by cultural forms and general cultural psychology, and an organic part of people's overall social consciousness.

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Kong Yingda, Shangshu Zhengyi, 270. English see Legge, Classic of History, Taishi 1.
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English see Hutton, Xunzi, 596.
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Fan Wenlan, Wenxin diaolong zhu, 673–74. English see Shih, The Literary Mind, 749–50.
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Kong Yingda, Maoshi Zhengyi, 6–8.
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Fan Wenlan, Wenxin diaolong zhu, 695. English see Shih, The Literary Mind, 776.
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Zhu, Z. (2022). Aesthetic Consciousness. In: Chinese Aesthetics in a Global Context. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-7747-2_6

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