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1、DIALOGUEANDUNIVERSALISMNo.11–12/2003EberhardOrtlandCOMPARATIVEAESTHETICS:BEYONDUNIVERSALISMANDRELATIVISMABSTRACTInterculturalaestheticsmustavoidthenaiveuniversalisticassumptionthataestheticconceptsshouldbeapplicableinvariablyinanyhistoricalcontext,aswellastherelativ-istresignationthat“we”wi
2、llneverknowwhatallthesethingsmeanto“them”.Com-parativeapproachescandeepenourunderstandingofthedifferencesbetweenaestheticpracticesinvariousculturesandoftheconstitutivelimitationsofeachofthese.Theyextendoursensefortherangeofpossibilitiesofaestheticexperience.Besidescompara-tivestudiesofcerta
3、inaestheticobjectsandthediscussionofexplicitaestheticdoctrines,typologicalelucidationofstylistictraitsisofparticularinterest.Thus,comparativeaestheticscanyieldfar-reachinginsightsintoculturalpatternsofperception.Intheglobalizedworldof“entangledmodernities”itbecomesincreasinglyrelevanttostud
4、yinterculturalprocessesofmutualinfluenceandnottofallpreytothetypologicalbiasforstrongcontrast.Keywords:hermeneuticexperience;interculturalperspectives;patternsofperception.INTRODUCTIONThecross-cultural,comparativeinvestigationofquestionsconsideredtobeofaestheticinterestisundoubtedlyafieldof
5、researchthathaswitnessedare-1markabledevelopmentinrecentyears.Itisconcernedwiththepracticesand—————————1See,forinstance,EliotDeutsch,StudiesinComparativeAesthetics(Honolulu1975);id.,“ComparativeAesthetics”,inTheEncyclopediaofAesthetics,ed.M.Kelly(Oxford1998),vol.1,pp.409–412.;JiahuaWu,AComp
6、arativeStudyofLandscapeAesthetics:LandscapeMorphology(Lewiston1995);KennethK.Inada(ed.),“East-westDialoguesinAesthetics”,JournalofAsianAffairs,vol.III,no.1(1978);RichardShusterman,“AestheticsBetweenNationalismandInter-nationalism”,JournalofAestheticsandArtCriticism,no.51(1993),pp.157–167;Gr
7、aziaMarchianò(ed.),EastandWestinAesthetics(Pisa–Rome1997);RolfElberfeld,“KomparativeÄsthetik—EineHinführung”,inGraziaMarchianò(ed.),op.cit.;andGünterWohlfart(ed.).,KomparativeÄsthetik.KünsteundästhetischeErfahrungenzwischenAsienundEuropa(Köln2000),pp.9–2