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An Analysis Of Marcuse 's Thought Of Emancipating

Posted on:2017-02-08Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:Y ZhangFull Text:PDF
GTID:2206330485962826Subject:Foreign Marxism
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Like Marx, as Marx’s western Frankfurt school representative Marcuse has been the liberation of man as his lifelong pursuit of the ideal. He to after the two world wars the reality of Western capitalist society as the background, exposes the fascist and control of the technological rationality of human’s survival circumstances. He pointed out that the increase in Western industrialized society people are not free, lack of social awareness against, is an unhealthy "morbid society". In the one-dimensional society, people become slaves of commodity fetishism, reduced to a loss of negative criticism to the "single person". From the thought origin, Marcuse was deeply influenced by Marx and Freud’s thought, Heidegger’s existentialism and the critical theory of Frankfurt school also had a profound impact on the. On this basis, he integrated Sigmund Freud’s psychological analysis theory and Marxist, elucidates the Freudian Marxism, tries to treatment of modern developed industrial society provide ills Jishi prescription.Marcuse believes that human nature is love, love is "sexual and quantitative expansion and qualitative improvement" is the sublimation of sexuality. However the modern material civilization repressed as the nature of human desire, under the principle of operation, people’s physical and mental have become tools of alienation of labor, so we have to through the liberation of Eros to achieve liberation. Liberation content includes not only the Eros liberation, including the liberation of nature and art,emancipation is the labor Eros, the liberation of the subject is "New Left", through the "total revolution" to build a Eros no longer suppressed non repressive civilization. But at the same time, Marcuse also pointed out that the liberation of Eros is not the indulgence.Marcuse analyzed the western capitalist society thought-provoking and and exploration into the path of human liberation, showing the philosopher’s wisdom and social care. He further developed Marx’s critical theory, reveals the living condition of the people in the capitalist society, carry forward the humanism attention to people,people are concerned about the spirit, reflecting the warm humanity, also enriched the ideas about human liberation, with indelible value of theory. But he one-sided understanding of the essence of human society, denied the people, did not rely on the revolutionary theory of proletarian revolutionary, and one-sided analysis of capitalism, will inevitably fall into the utopian fantasy. Nevertheless, Marcuse’s theory of human emancipation for the modernization construction of contemporary China still has time value and its enlightenment we in the development of traditional Chinese medicine rational use of science and technology, intensify efforts to protect the ecological environment, adhere to the people-oriented, to achieve the Chinese nation’s sustainable development and the great rejuvenation.
Keywords/Search Tags:Marcuse, Human Liberation, Eros, One-Dimensional
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