本书是2012年4月在英国曼彻斯特举办的第二届中英马克思主义美学双边论坛论文集。所收论文集中讨论了马克思主义与人道主义、《巴黎手稿》、当代美学研究及文化理论等问题,是对马克思主义美学问题的前沿性探讨,对当今世界人文思想研究具有积极的现实意义。正如该书主编之一王杰在《序言》所说:“在经历了所谓的‘世界末日’之后,在新自由主义破产之 This book is the second Sino-British Marxist Aesthetic Bilateral Forum Proceedings held in April 2012 in Manchester, England. The dissertation concentrates on such topics as Marxism and Humanism, ”Paris Manuscript", contemporary aesthetics and cultural theory. It is a frontier discussion on Marxist aesthetics and has positive and practical significance for the study of humanistic thought in today’s world. As Wang Jie, one of the chief editors, said in the Preamble: After going through the so-called ’doomsday’, after neoliberal bankruptcy