What are Zhu Guangqian's main aesthetic works?

Zhu Guangqian's major aesthetic works include Psychology of Literature and Art, Psychology of Tragedy, On Beauty, On Poetry, On Literature, Croce's Philosophical Review, History of Western Aesthetics, Essays on Aesthetic Review, On Beauty and Selected Works of Aesthetics.

Goethe's Conversations, Plato's Literary Dialogues, laocoon by G.E. Lessing, Aesthetics by G.W.F Hegel, Aesthetics by B.Croce and New Science by G.B. Vico were translated.

Zhu Guangqian studied Chinese and Western culture, making the past serve the present. He communicated western aesthetics with traditional aesthetics in China, old idealism aesthetics with Marxist aesthetics and modern aesthetics in China since the May 4th Movement with his profound research. He is a "bridge" in China's aesthetic history, spanning ancient and modern times and connecting China and foreign countries. He is also the most famous master of aesthetics in modern and contemporary China, and has won a high international reputation.

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Zhu Guangqian (1897 ~ 1986), a master of modern aesthetics, has successively edited various newspapers and periodicals, especially Literature magazine, and twice before and after the Anti-Japanese War. It was the best-selling literary publication at that time, with more than 20 thousand copies per issue, which left a very deep impression on readers.

Zhu Guangqian is a successful newspaper editor. 1948 someone praised him: "In the past 20 years, Mr. Zhu Guangqian was almost the only person who supported and guided China's literary and art circles with the most solemn and enthusiastic attitude." Although this is a bit excessive, Zhu Guangqian is worthy of the title of "the most solemn and enthusiastic" in terms of his attitude as editor-in-chief of the journal.

Zhu Guangqian's aesthetic and literary thoughts take humanism as the core and combine modern psychology to apply the aesthetic thoughts of modern humanistic psychology to literary research.

After Kant's modern aesthetic research, Zhu Guangqian revealed the qualitative difference between aesthetic sympathy and moral sympathy, and pointed out that aesthetic sympathy eliminated the boundary between subject and object, "separated the instantaneous experience from life, and the subject was lost in the object", which ruled out the position of rational aesthetic sympathy.

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