针对现代性的种种症结,审美主义作为救治之方案被抬高到了前所未有的地位。然而,审美主义自身却隐含着不可克服的矛盾,如审美独立性与社会功利性的矛盾、审美多元性与审美一元性的矛盾、审美主义的人本特色与虚无主义的矛盾等。托马斯.曼早期的艺术家小说正是通过对审美主义自身矛盾性的揭示,宣告了其失败。 In response to the crux of modernity, aestheticism has been elevated to an unprecedented status as a treatment plan. However, aestheticism itself implies insurmountable contradictions such as the contradiction between aesthetic independence and social utilitarianism, the contradiction between aesthetic pluralism and aesthetic unity, the aesthetic characteristic humanism and nihilism. It is through the revealing of contradictions of aestheticism that Thomas Mann’s early artists fiction proclaimed its failure.