同现代英国生活中许多别的东西一样,英国现代美学的形成期也在19世纪。无论迅速发展的工业化实践及其力量给英国思想的其它方面带来什么影响,在美学领域它的直接影响就是打断了标志着18世纪结束的哲学对艺术及美的本质的思考,这种思考的余波19世纪头几年还有。美学中那一发展的思维传统就此打住了,被维多利亚时代崇尚宗教教旨而鄙视哲学所取代。在18世纪的伯克(Burke)、休谟及沙夫茨伯里伯爵之后,美学变成了一个看来与当时极待解决的问题毫不相干的和学术兴味很淡的论题。更为消极的看法是,有人认为它是异国欧洲大陆学者的趣味所在,对哲学家及整 Like many other things in modern British life, the formation of British modern aesthetics was also in the 19th century. Regardless of the influence that rapid industrialization practices and other forces exert on other aspects of British thought, its immediate effect in the field of aesthetics is the interruption of the reflection of the philosophical essence of art and beauty that marked the end of the eighteenth century Aftermath The first few years of the nineteenth century. The developing intellectual tradition in the aesthetics thus stopped and was replaced by a contempt philosophy by the Victorian era. After the eighteenth century Burke, Hume, and Shaftesbury, aesthetics turned out to be a topic of academic interest that seemed irrelevant to the then outstanding problems of the time. More negative view is that some people think it is the interest of foreign European scholars, philosophers and the whole