A Research On Fredric Jameson’s Monadological Idea

Through combing the birth and development of Monadology,the thesis presents the Monadology clue,which has hidden behind the academic building,and reveals the special connotations of the Monadological Idea of Fredric Jameson,a contemporary Western Marxist theorist.Meanwhile,discusses about the Monadological Idea’s particular worth to reappear the individual value,connect the relationship between Marxist social production and literary production,and reshape the cultural experiences with an obvious rupture,in order to describe the updating track of Monadology more clearly,and further broaden the innovation path and realistic vision of Jameson study.In the introduction,firstly,explain the reasons for the topic with three reasons: the knowledge background,the academic status and theoretical significance of the research object,the current study trend and the landscape of social culture.Secondly,it analyzes the domestic and international research status of both Jameson and Monadology from three aspects: Marxism and ideology theory,post-modern research and criticism on culture and literature,and Utopia thought.And then,deduce the feasibility and rationality of the research on Jameson’s Monadological Idea.Finally,the significance and innovation of this topic are introduced,as well as the methods and strategies to be adopted in the research.The first chapter explores the evolution of the western concept of entity and the birth of monad and Monadology.The article selects representative philosophers and theories in pre-history of Monadology,including Democritus and Atomistics,Epicurus’ s thoughts on the Nature of Things,Descartes and Spinoza on Dualism and Monism,and so forth,until Leibniz established Monadology.These histories lay the basic characters of monads.Chapter two analyzes the inheritance and innovation of Jameson’s Monadological Idea.Under the guidance of totality and historicization,Jameson changed Leibniz’s idealist position that monad is a spiritual entity.At the same time,Jameson deeply inherited Marx’s excavation of soul vitality,and explored the ideology and subjectivity in the realities of capitalism.In addition,Jameson established the monadic production theory in the process of explaining Adorno’s aesthetic thought.The third chapter examines the combination of Jameson’s Monadologicl Idea and philosophical discourse from the perspectives of language and dialectics.Jameson linked the integrity,universal connection and heterogeneity of monads,as well as the two laws of “mutation” and “transformation” with structuralist language model and formalist language model.At the same time,Jameson deepened the concept of binary opposition in dialectics with the two principles of“contradiction” and “sufficient reason”,and took “spatial dialectics” as the new trend of dialectics.The fourth chapter focuses on the Monadological Idea that embodied in Jameson’s literary criticism.Jameson integrates the characters of monads,such as“cosmic microcosm”,“no windows” and “no fixed shape” into his terms of literary criticism,include the text narrative,“National Fable”,and utopian theory.Jameson’s purpose is to get rid of the law of mechanical causality and open the closed text to various external social relations,which provides support for the construction of Jameson’s Marxist hermeneutic aesthetics.In the fifth chapter,the article discusses Jameson’s response and reflection on the cultural picture of postmodernism and globalization under the Monadological Idea.Jameson believes that in the current society,the monological subjects present a trend of decentralization,and their consciousness of history is gradually dissipating.Moreover,the hyperspace caused by the trend of globalization seems to strengthen the connection between monads,but it implies the deep risk of cultural experience fracture.It is necessary to use Apperception Survey to overcome the sense of loss caused by hyperspace.The conclusion summarizes the full text and arranges the key points of Jameson’s Monadological Idea,put forward the shortcomings and deepening path of this paper.And further summarizes the unique value of Jameson’s monad Monadological Idea to Western Marxism with a historical perspective both of western philosophy and literature,clarifies its role in renewing the theories about literature production and activity.In the end,the essay also puts forward the possible space for the development and application of Jameson’s Monadological Idea in the fields of aesthetics and sociology.