在西方当代美学思潮中,“西方马克思主义”美学是一个影响较大的流派,其学说和思想远远渗入亚洲和拉美。它的发展曲折、纷繁复杂,派系枝蔓,涉猎广泛,内容丰富。我们对这一复杂的精神现象,应当研究、分析,目的在于建设我们的美学和文艺学。为此,我们编了《西方马克思主义美学文选》,贡献给我国广大读者。编辑之余,有些想法,便在此书前言的基础上,作了一些较大的修改和增删,写成这篇探讨的文字,藉以“引玉”。 In the western trend of contemporary aesthetics, “Western Marxism” aesthetics is a school of great influence, and its doctrines and ideas permeate far into Asia and Latin America. Its twists and turns of development, numerous and complicated, factional branches, extensive coverage, rich in content. We should study and analyze this complex spiritual phenomenon with the aim of building our aesthetics and literary studies. To this end, we have compiled the Selected Works of Western Marxist Aesthetics and contributed to the readership in our country. Some editors, some ideas, in the book on the basis of preface, made some major changes and additions and deletions, writing the text of this discussion, in order to “lead jade.”