| Fredric Jameson, the brilliant cultural critics in twenties century, is an outstanding representative of new Marxism applying historical and dialectical method to analyze postmodernism, taking it as the dominant form of the late capitalistic culture logic. From the point of social development, Jameson can objectively evaluate postmodernism. While Lyotard is acclaiming the coming of postmodernism, Jameson interposes a sharp scalpel into the internal organs of postmodernism, and discovers the degenerate essence of capitalism through the prosperous superficial phenomenon. The corrosiveness of commodity fetishism, the breakout of collective life, and the loss of the cultural critic and spiritual precursor, all of these become new crisis of postmodernism. Jameson surveys the whole world, looks forward to the future of human beings and questions insistently how on earth the postmodernism develops.Jameson doesn't stop in the trouble of postmodern culture; meanwhile actively probe social development and obtain the strength that can transcend the capitalism. Based on the "cognitive drawing" as the theoretical foundation in his thought, Jameson establishes a wonderful picture of cultural Utopia. As the products in a particular period, postmodern culture adapts to the tendency of social development and stands for the historical necessity and activity. The seeds of hope breeding in Jameson culture theory such as popular culture and humanism belonging to aesthetic perception, pluralism and the development of freedom, leads the ideal culture to the future. Shaking off the bonds of capitalistic ideology, from the second and third world Jameson seeks for the chance that can extricate from postmodern predicament. He names the culture based on the mode of collective production to be "real culture", which possesses active significance on revolutionary. In Jameson's opinion, the enormous capacity of American modern society doesn't mean, "weakness lends wings to rumors", it needs the foundation of traditional spirits. Therefore, traditional culture possesses important modernistic significance. The tradition not only supplies the human beings experience, but also examined modern society as a bystander, and treats the customs properly to help people successfully find out the possible ways to change reality and the first glimmer of dawn to predict the future. Adopting all of the positive factors of culture, from the three points, Jameson concludes the thought of Utopia culture with comprisal and pluralism. Jameson puts his view on the future, composes the reasonable social shapes for future development, and represents the method to promote the birth of new society. Jameson proposes a glorious presume to the future of capitalist. His blueprint of cultural Utopia plays the role of the theoretical precursor and offers the spiritual encouragement for socialist development. Jameson tries to escape from the historical limitation of West Marxism, but does not indeed carries it out. Being in the capitalistic society, it is an ideal programme to construct the culture for Jameson temporary "suspending the method of product".Jameson's cultural Utopia makes a great significance in theory for the analysis and solution of post modernistic problems using Marxism he creatively, the new development of Marxism with injecting fresh blood and vitality, the procession of good future. Therefore, we name his thoughts to be pos modernistic Marxism. As realistic sense concerned, Jameson's thought has an important value on socialist culture construction. Although China doesn't enter into the postmodernism, the popular thought of postmodernism has already seriously influenced on our national culture. If we had recognized the actual situation of postmodernism, we could effectively resist imperialist culture aggression. Jameson's "cognitive drawing" theory and cultural Utopia supply us the important information resources. China serves magnanimous "real culture products", which become precious resources of socialist cultural constructio... |
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