美国著名文学与文化批评家爱德华·赛义德,将自己的学术生涯划分为四个时期,即“兴趣期”、“理论期”、“政治期”、“美学期”。这四个时期跨度之长,在西方文学批评家,尤其是后殖民批评家中非常少见。在很大程度上,从第三个时期即所谓“政治期”起,应该说是赛义德后殖民批评的升华,见证了赛义德政治观和美学观的重大转变。政治是审美的一种特殊表现,赛义德的政治美学主要体现在:将政治学的视角引入到文学和文化研究领域,在关注文学作品审美完整性的同时,坚 Edward Said, a famous American literary and cultural critic, divides his academic career into four periods, namely “interest period”, “theoretical period”, “political period”, “aesthetic period ”. The span of these four periods is very rare among Western literary critics, especially post-colonial critics. To a large extent, from the third period, the so-called “political period,” it should be said that Saeed’s post-colonial criticism has been sublimated and witnessed a major shift in Saeed’s political and aesthetic views. Politics is a special manifestation of aesthetic. Said’s political aesthetics is mainly embodied in the following aspects: Introducing political science into the fields of literature and culture, while paying attention to the aesthetic integrity of literary works,