SPECIFICS OF DEVELOPMENT OF AESTHETICS STUDIES: BETWEEN SOVIET AND CHINESE MARXISM

The article reveals the features of formation and functioning aesthetic research in such two areas Marxism as Soviet Chinese. study identified three key stages development aesthetics – pre-war (the 1920s 1930s), late Stalinism Khrushchev thaw, period (1970-1980s). It should be noted that context Marxism, tasks were becomes influential in-demand science, included program "technical progress" "education builder communism", important ideological, aesthetic, applied field philosophy. Therefore, addition to fact purely ideological works developed within framework discourse, itself was able develop thanks contacts with semiotics, psychology, anthropology, cultural history, sociology. Relying on a selective stream translations Western philosophies art, is beginning resonate global trends, which facilitated by unspoken consensus idea part philosophical humanitarian knowledge has its own autonomy. Proved China culture revolution are inextricably linked Marxist projects critiquing capitalist modernity building alternative modernity. Aesthetics also at center attention Chinese circles. In this respect, diverse practices designs similar those or an equally distinct variety Euro-American intellectual enterprises. Aesthetic had dual mission criticize internal contradictions revolutionary hegemony offer constructive vision post-revolutionary society. This value implications go beyond proper world criticism. Moreover, being non-Western, deliberately questioned inherent Eurocentrism Marxism. If challenged problematized, questions posed Marxists cannot ignored.