《马克思主义美学研究》（第16卷第2期）主要刊登西方马克思主义美学和中国马克思主义美学及文论研究方面的论文，兼及人类学、文化研究等主题，注重学术研究的前沿性与问题意识，努力搭建中西学术研究交流的桥梁，尤其强调给本土的学术研究构建一流平台。（Study of Marxist Aesthetics (Volume 16) (No. 2) publishes the articles about western Marxist aesthetics, Chinese Marxist aesthetics and the papers about literary research, as well as subjects on anthropology and cultural studies. It pays attention to both the forefront and consciousness of problems of academic researches and also makes efforts to build a bridge for communication between Chinese and western academic researches, especially, it emphasis on building a first-class platform for local academic researches.）