The Historical Status And Influence Of Marx's Philosophy Of Technology

The rapid development of technology of the twentieth century is one of the most important phenomena, the research of technology has become a strong trend of contemporary philosophy, "the technical turn" topic of the philosophy is being discussed enthusiastically by foreign scholars. Obviously, it is a great benefit to concern and discuss the Marxist philosophy, in particular, the status and influence of the technical philosophical thinking. As early as the mid-nineteenth century, Marx explored the technical issues deeply. He studied and summarized the perspective of the history of technology development from philosophy,economics and technology, and explained the nature and development of technology, technology and people, nature and the laws of social interaction on this basis, which formed a systematic and complete the technical concept of philosophy of the technology.In the 20th century, the foreign academias(especially the western academias) had being made attention on the study of the thought and got lots of achievement. In contrast, it is relatively vague for us to learn wholely the Marx's philosophy of technology, obviously, which is a disadvantage to study the ideas deeply including the philosophy of Marx and the philosophy of technology research. Marx's philosophy of technology is an important area of philosophy of technology. At present, we need to study the logical structure and the historical status of the thought of Marx's philosophy of technology and its influence.At the same time, we need to study thought of Marx's philosophy of technology status and significance of the academic system, seminars. Especially, we need to study the influence that Marx's philosophy of technology has made on the ontology of technology, technology critical theory, technology theory of value and so on.Firstly, the first chapter describes briefly the basic philosophy of technology content and main features, including traditional development stage of philosophy of technology, contemporary development stage of philosophy of technology and "the empirical turn" in the technical philosophy. Secondly, the second chapter gives an summary of the thought of Marx's philosophy of technology, and it discusses the thought of Marx's philosophy of technology and the domestic influence of international status in the conclusion.The third chapter studies the thought of the Marx's philosophy of technology and technological determinism, and analyses the Marx's philosophy of technology on the technical nature of thought to define, the role of technology on society and whether that Marx is the academic of technological determinism in detail. Marx believes that technology is a human creation and the nature of technology is the essence of the power of objectification of human nature. The 4th chapter studies the influence that Marx's philosophy of technology has made on the Frankfurt, and analyses the relationship between Marx and Frankfurt, and points out three differences of the Marx's social criticism and the critical theory of Frankfurt in detail, and carries out on the case studies of Feenberg. The center of Marx's philosophy of technology makes a criticism of technology on the conditions of capitalism, which affects Frankfurt deeply. Finally, the 5th chapter studies the influence that Marx's philosophy of technology has made on the ecological marxism, and analyses the ecological marxism and its technology exposition, and the part of the critical theory of the ecology perspective in detail. Ecological marxism follows the theme of the social criticism in the thought of Marx's philosophy of technology, and makes the reason of the ecological crisis to the capitalism itself.