Journal of Shanghai University (Social Science Edition) ›› 2015, Vol. 32 ›› Issue (2): 84-95.

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What Linguistic Analytical Aesthetics Can Do?——Inspirations to Aesthetics Gained from Wittgenstein′s Later Thought

  

  1. Department of Chinese Language and Literature, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200062, China
  • Received:2014-10-12 Online:2015-03-15 Published:2015-03-15

Abstract: The linguistic analytical aesthetics based on Wittgenstein′s later thought is a method of aesthetics research worthy of excavation. It is a type of defensive aesthetics which holds suspicions of the general aesthetic statements originated from metaphysical aesthetics, and questions and negates latter′s general concepts through the method of linguistic analysis. Judging from the surface, it seems to dissolve aesthetics, but in effect it is not. The truth is that linguistic analysis aims at breaking general aesthetic statements, and does not lead to absolute deconstructionism. On the contrary, aesthetics gains rebirth on the basis of language use owing to linguistic analysis. Linguistic analytical aesthetics offers a new constructive direction for aesthetics and arts research, creating aesthetic grammar.

Key words:  linguistic analysis, linguistic turn, grammatical therapy, aesthetic grammar

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