1.背景学院危机发生在一个广阔的背景之中,它值得我们探讨,以展现其清晰的轮廓。十七世纪,法国的学识界并没有认真追究美学方面的问题,然而对于何为美学基础这一问题却得到了普遍的重视。作家、哲学家,以及艺术家通常都通晓关于美的古典主义思想,尤其熟悉柏拉图、亚里士多德和普洛丁的学说。除承继一些文艺复兴传统之外,他们还开始反省另外一 1. Background The crisis in the academy takes place in a vast context that deserves our exploration in order to show its clear outline. In the seventeenth century, the French intellectuals did not seriously pursue the aesthetic problems, however, the issue of what is the aesthetic basis has received universal attention. Writers, philosophers, and artists are usually acquainted with the classicist ideas of beauty, especially the doctrines of Plato, Aristotle and Prudin. In addition to inheriting some of the Renaissance traditions, they also began to reflect on the other one