Part Two (Literature and Art and Aesthetics), from independent aesthetics, tries to show the modernity contradiction and its background Zhu Guangqian met when he established the theory of pure aesthetics.

• 上篇：文艺与美，着重从审美独立的角度分析朱光潜在建构京派纯美理论中遇到的现代性矛盾及其背景；