童庆炳教授是我国当代文艺理论大师和著名教育家,数十年耕耘不辍、著作等身,出版讲演录却还是第一次。但这不是讲演稿的简单合集,而是一次完整的文学理论课程教学的录音记录。全书主体部分共八讲,涵盖了文艺美学三个层面的内容:哲学的美学、心理学的美学和社会学的美学。其中,第一讲从哲学的角度探讨美的本质,在前人学说的基础上作者提出自己的“美 Professor Tong Qingbing is a master of contemporary literature and art theory and a famous educator in our country. It has been the first time that his speech has been published for decades. However, this is not a simple collection of presentations, but a complete recording of literary theory course teaching. The main part of the book consists of eight lectures, covering the three levels of literary aesthetics: philosophical aesthetics, psychology aesthetics and sociology aesthetics. Among them, the first one discusses the essence of beauty from a philosophical point of view. Based on the theory of the predecessors, the author proposes his own ”beauty