本质主义与反本质主义的论争是新世纪以来文学理论研究领域展开的一场重要的学术争鸣。这场论争提出了文学的边界、文艺学研究的范式转换以及如何应对日常生活审美化对文学研究的挑战等重要问题,与接踵而来的日常生活审美化论争具有密切的联系。日常生活审美化论争主要在文学理论层面和美学层面展开,在文学理论层面 The debate between essentialism and anti-essentialism is an important academic debate in the field of literary theory since the new century. This debate raised important issues such as the boundary of literature, the paradigm shift of literature and art studies, and how to deal with the challenges posed by aesthetic appreciation of everyday life to literary studies. It is closely linked with the successive aesthetic controversies in daily life. Aesthetic controversy of daily life mainly in literary theory and aesthetic level, in the theoretical level of literature