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In Defense of Beauty: Gao Ertai's Aesthetics of Resistance
- Philosophy East and West
- University of Hawai'i Press
- Volume 69, Number 4, October 2019
- pp. 994-1013
- 10.1353/pew.2019.0082
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Abstract:
Here, the aesthetic theory of Gao Ertai 高尔泰 is examined as a form of resistance to the state-driven collectivization of subjective experience. It is argued th at in post-1949 China aesthetics constitutes a discursive realm in which the experience of beauty confronts the collective sublime at the root of PRC nationalism.