On Marx's Surpassing Pre-modern Western Philosophy And His Postmodern View

Marxism has implemented the absolute transformation in philosophical history, it totally changing the subject, function and thinking mode of philosophy. To understand the real meaning of Marx's surpassing pre-modern western philosophy, it's essential to find out how and what Marx has surpassed. To accomplish it, we survey Marxism from the point of view of philosophical history; comprehend Marx's surpassing pre-modern western philosophy with Marx's "practical thinking mode"; ravel out the relations of Marxism and modern western philosophy, Marxism and postmodernism. The paper is mainly divided into five parts.Part one is to raise the question. In this part we mainly analyze the methodology which is the basis of "rereading Marxism" and researching Marxism in the contemporary era.Part two is to discuss modern western philosophy's deconstruction to meta-physics, which includes the reason and mode of the deconstruction. We firstly describe the process track of pre-modern western philosophy and analyze its crisis. Secondly we analyze modern western philosophy's deconstruction and criticizing meta-physics. Thirdly we discuss postmodernism's overall deconstruction to western philosophical tradition. Fourthly we analyze the difficulty of modern western philosophy including postmodernism.Part three is to solve how Marx deconstructs and surpasses pre-modern western philosophy. We firstly provide a general description of Marx's surpassing and deconstruction pre-modern western philosophy. Secondly we analyze how Marx implements the absolute transformation in philosophical thinking mode. Thirdly we analyze Marx's philosophical outlook and its transcendence over modern western philosophy.Part four is to analyze Marx's postmodern view. Marx presents a postmodern view of changing "modernity" through his criticizing Capitalism society. However, Marx is not a postmodernist, just having some similarity with postmodernism in some aspects to a degree. Marx 's criticizing Capitalism is totally different from postmodernism's.Part five is a conclusion: Marxism must dialogue with contemporary western philosophy; Marxism must pay attention to "postmodern problems"; Marxism must keep the theoretical character of "advancing with the times".