20世纪是一个充满变化和挑战的世纪,作为对社会变迁有责任进行思考和批判的思想界,在各自的领域里描绘着整个过程的动态图。其间,学人对20世纪西方美学发展历程的梳理与建构,虽不免烙下时代和私人的印记,但终究为我们提供了一扇小窗,使我们得以管窥到整个20世纪某个层面上的独特面貌。这种窥测,虽说只是一隅的视野,但也有它自身的难度,因为,在经历了巨大变迁的20世纪内部有太多的冲突和对立,这种状态特征反映在具体的研究层面上就表 The 20th century is a century full of changes and challenges. As the thinking community that has the responsibility to think and critique social changes, it depicts the dynamic picture of the whole process in its own field. In the meantime, scholars’ comprehension and construction of the development of western aesthetics in the 20th century, though inevitably branching off the stamp of the times and the private, provided us with a small window after all so that we could have a glimpse into a whole twentieth century Unique look. This glimpse, though only a corner of view, has its own difficulties because too many conflicts and antagonisms have taken place within the twentieth century undergoing tremendous changes. Such state characteristics are reflected in the specific research level