20世纪初叶,美学这一学科经过王国维等一批先贤的提倡和推动,在中国逐步成为显学。此后,它在百余年的中国现当代历史中多有消长沉浮,但繁荣、复兴和发展构成了一以贯之的主线。在这一进程中,有两个问题值得注意:一是在西方,自黑格尔以来被限定为“艺术哲学”的美学,因现代艺术对美的疏离而空洞化、边缘化。二是在东方,尤其是在东亚的中、日、韩等国,美学却保持着日益旺盛的发展态势,无论学术队伍的规模还是一般公 At the beginning of the 20th century, the discipline of aesthetics gradually became a significant school in China through advocacy and promotion by a group of sages such as Wang Guowei. Since then, it has experienced ups and downs in more than a century of modern and contemporary Chinese history, but prosperity, revival and development constitute a coherent theme. In this process, there are two issues worth noting: First, in the West, since Hegel was defined as the “philosophy of art,” the aesthetic space has been denuded and marginalized by the alienation of modern art from the United States. The second is in the East, especially in East Asia, Japan, South Korea and other countries, aesthetics has maintained an increasingly strong momentum of development, regardless of the size of the academic team or the general public