Ldeology And Political Criticism

Terry Eagleton, the literary criticism theoretician of England, taking the basic idea of iterature is a kind of ideology as the basis, by means of ideology and the practical mode of political criticism, probing contemporary cultural political reality, constructs his theory of ideology criticism and idea of cultural political criticism in the scope of literary cultural study.Terry Eagleton absorbs the spiritual core of some thinkers, such as Williams, Louis Althusser, Freud, Macherey, Walter Benjamin, Bertolt Brecht, etc. and reinterprets the concept "ideology" critically. Through the enforcement on the productivity of ideology, he initiates Marxist cultural esthetics which takes ideological production as its core. Through "ideology", he links the general production mode and the literary production mode in economic foundation and superstructure, and systematically explores the characteristics and law when literature is as a kind of aesthetic ideological production, and improves the aesthetic ideological theory in concrete British literary criticism. His critical practice is an effective example of exploring "scientific Marxist literary criticism", and his ideological criticism theory is a good reference for us to understand the relationships between literature and ideology. His theory has developed the traditional theory of Marxist ideology and Marxist literary criticism, as has great values on theory and application.The ideological criticism of Terry Eagleton is not only an academic school discussion on theory, but a representation of effective practical spirit. He takes his political critical logic and stand on the basis of esthetics and ideology, and further develops the "borrowing" function in lots of contemporary cultural political research fields, such as contemporary cultural study and women's rights cultural study in Ireland. His sharp criticism represents the consistent thought tendency of Marxists in Western countries, and meanwhile shows the concentration on reality and humane thinking of Western contemporary intellectuals. Interacting with some cultural ideas, such as post-modernism, post-deconstructionism, his ideas of Marxist culture and philosophy deeply influences contemporary cultural political philosophy. His post-modernism cultural criticism has alarming theoretical significance and academic value on the reality and history of Chinese post-modernism study.Terry Eagleton's critical concepts and methods are still not a widespread theory form. His fundamental theory faults on the critical interpretation of ideology concept standing on the psychological analysis and Marxist, and his theory systematical waving and alternation on the ideology criticism theory resulting from his over-conforming to Louis Althusser's ideological practical function, all these affect his effective connection between theory and reality. In the process of his contemporary radical cultural political criticism practice as a Marxist stand holder, he cannot completely get rid of the leftover ideas and utterance form of deconstructionism so that he ultimately cannot avoid the paradox of contemporary cultural study context and the embarrassment of theology, which holds up his sharp criticism. Terry Eagleton provides us with a cultural thought case for studying contemporary'Western literary criticism theories, and his critical thinking has profound humane significance in "critical century".