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The Heller Daily Life Critical Theory Research

Posted on:2013-01-04Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:X LiFull Text:PDF
GTID:2215330374954561Subject:Marxist philosophy
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This thesis mainly focuses on a Eastern Europe philosopher Agnes Heller's Everyday Life theory, and tries to find out the inhabitations not only between her critiques and the New east European Marxism, but also between her critiques and Marxism, We can see the importance of the discussion of everyday life through these comparationsThe first Part of this thesis is about the source of Heller'theory—her teacher George Lukacs. Lukacs's interesting about alienation and practice obviously inherited from Marxism, and his theory about everyday life inspired Heller.The second part is about Heller's theory itself. She discussed everyday life in a different way that she pay more attention on the People in everyday life. In her opinion, people is the fundamental factor, if we want to transform our society, we must change our attitude first. Everyday life has a bigotry structure that it always encourages the repetition of practices and thoughts, Which abrases people'ability of creativity, and the alienation in society makes people ceaselessly chasing after more and more money, sometimes even imposing other people. This kind of society must be changed, and Heller'method is to change people's attitude at first.The third Part of this thesis is to expound the theoretical significance and the realistic significance of Heller's theory. It includes the significant impact of Chinese traditional culture mode. She provides us with a theoretical perspective, but it is important for Individual constantly practicing. This requires us to break through the traditional cultural mode and achieve individual character.
Keywords/Search Tags:Heller, Critique of everyday life, humanity of everyday life, Chinesetraditional culture
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