“对象化”是目前关于美的本质讨论的一个核心范畴 ,对这个范畴的理解 ,显然不能过于狭隘。本文通过对马克思“对象化”理论的分析 ,试图把握作为审美范畴的“对象化”的内涵与外延 ,并找出作为审美范畴的对象化与非审美范畴的对象化之间的差异的标志。审美对象化区别于一般对象化之处 ,是反思判断能力的参与 ,有了反思判断能力 ,主体就能使自己的对象化产物转化为美的对象。而在没有反思能力的主体那里 ,即使是劳动实践的产物也只能是一种潜在的审美对象 ,而反思能力又不是一种抽象的主体本质力量 ,它是社会的产物 “Objectification” is a core category in the current discussion of the essence of beauty. Obviously, understanding of this category can not be too narrow. Through the analysis of Marx’s theory of “objectification”, this article attempts to grasp the connotation and denotation of “objectification” as the aesthetic category and find out the difference between objectification of aesthetic category and objectification of non-aesthetic category. Aesthetic objectification is different from general objectification, is the reflection of the ability to participate in judgments, with the ability of reflection and judgment, the subject can make its own objectified products into the object of beauty. In the main body without reflection capability, even the product of labor practice can only be a potential aesthetic object, and the reflective ability is not an abstract subjective power, it is the product of society