Abstract

Richard Shusterman's Pragmatist Aesthetics: Living Beauty, Rethinking Art was published in China in 2002. In the preface of the Chinese edition, the author claimed that his tentative idea of soma esthetics was encouraged by Chinese philosophy and other ancient Asian philosophy. Shusterman's background in pragmatist philosophy greatly constrains his understanding of the body in classical Chinese aesthetics in that he only pays attention to the technical aspects of physical training while neglecting the philosophical basis of this training. In Chinese philosophy the orientation of the body, the relationship between the body and the universe, the body characteristic of the beauty of nature and the beauty of art, etc., is a theoretical response to Shusterman's oriental misreading. 2002 /// 年，理查德·舒斯特曼的 "实用主义美学" 在中国出版。在中文版序言 中，作者声称他关于身体美学的设想, "受到了中国哲学和其他古代亚洲哲学的鼓 励。" 事实上，舒斯特曼实用主义的哲学背景，明显制约了他对中国美学中身体问题 的理解一一只注意到了其中关于身体训练的技术问题，而忽略了这种训练的哲学根 据。中国哲学对于身体的定位、身体与世界的关系、自然美和艺术美的身体性等， 可以成为对舒斯特曼 "东方误读" 的理论回应。.