朱光潜教授的《西方美学史》写于六十年代初期,1963年由人民文学出版社出版,1979年出版了修订本。二十多年来,该书一再重印,不但满足了我国高校文科教学的需要,而且受到整个学术界的重视和好评。现在,国家教委组织的全国优秀教材评奖活动将该书评为国家级特等优秀教材,这是对它的恰当评价。 Professor Zhu Guangqian’s “History of Western Aesthetics” was written in the early 1960s. It was published by People’s Literature Publishing House in 1963 and revised in 1979. Over the past 20 years, the book has been reprinted again and again, not only satisfying the needs of liberal arts teaching in colleges and universities in our country, but also being valued and praised by the academic community as a whole. Now, the National Education Commission organized by the National Excellent Teaching Award for the book as the national best primary and excellent textbooks, which is the right evaluation of it.