Abstract:
Alexander Nehamas, an American philosopher who advocates “the art of living”, shows a tendency of returning to the aesthetics of living in aesthetics, thus showing the historical trend of centrifugation in aesthetics.The core idea of his philosophy and aesthetics is to link beauty and happiness directly and to take beauty as the promise of happiness.On this basis, it is believed that “beauty is love”.Beauty is connected with love through desire, and beauty is related to love, so it is related to happiness.Therefore, he opposed the principle of “aesthetic disinterestedness” which was espoused by Kant, and opposed antiuniversalism in aesthetics.He emphasized the “uncertanity” of aesthetic differentiation, and recognized that aesthetic value is the value of difference and individuality, thus becoming a new philosophical stream in western aesthetics.
