Abstract:
Like modern western aesthetics since the Enlightenment, Chinese aesthetics faces the hazard of marginalization, and its advantageous place has received continuous embarrassment in the worldly mind. The marginalization of aesthetics results primarily from the vanishing of the holy excessive dimension of aesthetics. Therefore, only by regaining traditional resources of classical aesthetics, can the holy excessive dimension and lofty value be reestablished. Theological aesthetics, on whose basis western classical (philosophic) aesthetics was established, provides a binary theoretical approach involving both holy beauty and worldly beauty, whose theoretical framework should be referred to reestablish the holy excessive dimension of Chinese aesthetics.
