Abstract:

Marx's social ideal has an aesthetic starting - point, that is, the essential difference between man and beast is that man creates his world according to the laws of beauty, and this fundamental point is based on his own aesthetic feelings while his social ideal is a crystallization of his aesthetic feelings under the guidance of the aspiration of human solicitude. The human solicitude pushes Marx into the social practice aiming at changing the world and into the area of theoretical researches, and this aesthetic sentiment as a potential drive is always accompanied with and immersed in his concern about human beings. The former guides Marx to tend towards history in his critique of literature and arts while the latter is distilled into a universal aesthetic idea at the same time and becomes a goal he devotes himself to. Pushing forward history means approaching aesthetics. In new historical circumstances readjusting and reorienting the two measures of aesthetics and history in literary and artistic criticisms should also be expected by Marx.

Key words: Marx, aesthetics, history, aesthetic feeling, social ideal