Social consciousness is the sum of social spiritual life phenomena, the reflection of social existence, and the sum of thoughts, viewpoints and concepts directly related to the economy and politics of a certain society, including political and legal thoughts, morality, literature and art, religion, philosophy and other social sciences.
Literature is a language art and an aesthetic ideology in discourse. Poetry, prose, novel, drama, fable and fairy tale are all important literary forms. Literature expresses inner feelings in different forms, that is, genres, and reproduces social life in a certain period and region. As a discipline, literature includes China language and literature, foreign language and literature and journalism and communication.
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In addition to external, practical and utilitarian values, literature also has internal, seemingly useless and utilitarian values, that is, spiritual values. Spirit has many different definitions.
What defines the concept of spirit is that it is an intentional existence within human beings, an organic unity of many psychological factors of human rationality and sensibility, and a psychological activity process of human beings constantly surpassing and perfecting themselves. Therefore, spiritual value is different from material value, and spiritual value is internal, ontological and constantly surpassing itself.
Literary creation is the spiritual activity of literary and art workers, literary works belong to the spiritual products of human beings, and the acceptance and appreciation of literature and art also belong to human spiritual activities. Therefore, the spiritual value of literature and art should be its own most intrinsic and basic value.
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