The Cultural Theory Of Budapest School

In the1950s and1960s, A group of radical ideas of the students and somelike-minded around Lukacs make up the Budapest School, mainly by Lukacs' studentsHeller, Feher,George Markus and Vajda. On the basis of Western Marxism andcombined with their own reality life situation, They criticize the society and the erawhich they lived. culture is the starting point of the Budapest school perspective socialcrisis, only starting from cultural starting, the whole thinking of the Budapest Schoolwould be understand. This article is based on the cultural position of the Budapestschool thought, to interpret the thought of Budapest school within culture.Throughout the20th century cultural theory, Budapest School promote thehistorical process of cultural theory to the conscious. Lukacs' theory of culture is thefoundation of the Budapest School cultural theory, under the influence of Lukacs'cultural theory about integrated culture and fractured culture, Budapest School creattheir special cultural theory. The cultural theory of Budapest school not only containthe special criticism on cultural crisis, but also contain a general understanding of theculture obtained on the basis of special criticism; not only contain the culturalInterpretation of both the spiritual and cultural level, but also contain the culturalcritique of the social and political level; not only contain the cultural reflection ofpractical level, but also contain the modern criticism of theoretical level. The culturaltheory of Budapest school is consists of two parts: the first part of the diverse culturaltheory. On the one hand, the Budapest school consider culture as the paradigm,criticizing the cultural crisis of the era in multi-dimensional, revealing the trend ofcultural diversity; on the other hand, modern culture as a force of diverse anddispersion,has now seeped into the social life in various fields. Another part is areflection of the Budapest school of modern culture. In the cultural criticism andreflection of the multi-dimensional, Budapest school draw a general understanding ofthe culture, and the general understanding of culture is used to analysis the focus ofmodern society—modernity, finding out the source of modern social culturalcrisis—modernity cultural model. This article interpret the thinking of multidimensional cultural criticism ofBudapest School, reveals a pluralism connotation of Budapest School cultural theory;through the research on the cultural critique and modern reflection, digging out theattitude on modernity of Budapest School. Finally, This article reflect the culturaltheory of Budapest School, reveal the Budapest School cultural theory is theinheritance and development of Marx's social and historical thought, and narrate thiscultural theory is a cultural philosophy paradigm beyond the the philosophy ofconsciousness paradigm, highlighting the postmodern theory area of Budapest Schoolcultural theory, come to the conclusion that the cultural theory of Budapest school'cultural philosophy paradigm abandon the grand narrative, has been changed into amicro-political philosophy.