Eagleton Aesthetic Ideology Discourse Research

Terry Eagleton (1943-) is a famous Marxism theorist in modern world, we have a truly conclusion that the book The ideology of the aesthetic was great, it contains some theory about aesthetics, philosophy and politics. Terry Eagleton has constructed a relation between ideology and aesthetic, meanwhile, a path has been fond to form ideological theory by aesthetic. This passage mainly focuses on "the ideology of the aesthetic", pointing out the produce, the development of the ideology of the aesthetic and the relations between two parts with the ideology of the aesthetic. Through the research way of discourse, we emphasize main content and modern influence of the ideology of the aesthetic.This essay is purposive to pay much attention to "the ideology of the aesthetic" of Terry Eagleton, in order to explain appropriately for its content and value. On one hand, exploring the contemporary value of the ideology of the aesthetic. This passage focuses on the philosophical meaning of discourse, demonstrating discourse with the pre-modern functions and structural linguistics, meanwhile explaining the Linguistic turn of philosophy in20th, especially for Michel Foucault’s discourse theory. On the other hand, reduce the research environment to clarify the concept of the ideology of the aesthetic.The paper’s foreword involved three parts as the significance of the topic, the current situation in China and abroad, the content and the research methods. In chapter one, clarifying the content of the ideology of the aesthetic. Chapter one firstly analysis the philosophical evolve of discourse, tracing "logos" in ancient Greece. After the modern linguistics, we pay much attention to multi-develop of discourse. The passage has attributed to Linguistic turn of philosophy; Michel Foucault is as the prominent represent in discourse theory to explain the effect of the discourse of the ideology of the aesthetic. Secondly I have discussed the theory of Karl Max, Ceorg Lukacs, Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno, Herbert Marcuse and Louis Althusser that had some relationships with the ideology of the aesthetic. At the end of this part we discussed the constructed way of the discourse of the ideology of the aesthetic.Chapter two is based on the text of The ideology of the aesthetic, explaining its meaning by discourse analysis method. At the same time, body is defined as the physical basis of the ideology of the aesthetic; and constructing the body discourse throughout the connotation of body. In this part the theory also points out the Utopian nature. Combining The ideology of the aesthetic and The illusion of postmodernism, the passage shows the revolutionary academic achievement of Terry Eagleton, and the discourse of the ideology of the aesthetic’s develop in the contemporary multiple factors.Chapter three talks about the functions and influence of the discourse of the ideology of the aesthetic by discourse way, and has views of "aesthetic as the core of the knowledge" and" aesthetic as the constructed way of ideology" to demonstrate modern aesthetic discourse’s significance. Section two is mainly to the contemporary effect and the development of the discourse of the ideology of the aesthetic, especially shows the body discourse. Combining postmodernist multiple micro-politics with the discourse of the ideology of the aesthetic is a key to explain the facing problems and the challenge. Terry Eagleton has some criticism on the form-changing in postmodernism for the discourse of the ideology of the aesthetic, and pointed out the development direction.