On The Criticism Of Modernity In Lukacs’ Early Aesthetics Thoughts

As one of the representatives of Western Marxist philosophy,Lukacs wrote a lot in his life,and his thoughts are rich and profound.In the context of the emergence of anti-Semitism and the emergence of the crisis of European civilization,Lukacs wrote "History of Modern Drama","Mind and Form","Novel Theory" and Paul Ernst letter.Because of the influence of Neo-Kantianism,Hegelian philosophy and 19 th century Russian critique of realist literature,Lukacs expresses his critique of capitalism from aesthetic theory in these texts.In fact,this criticism is an ideological level of criticism,it is the organic part of Lukacs critical theory of modernity.This paper is divided into three parts: introduction,text and conclusion.In the introduction,this part mainly explains the background and significance of the topic,the research summary at home and abroad,the research ideas and methods,and the innovation and deficiency of the article.In particular,it is a change in research perspective to study Lukacs’ modern critical thinking of modernity,especially through his aesthetic thought.It helps to reveal the deep implication behind aesthetic theory,and help to grasp Lukacs’ critical theory of modernity in the future research.For the study of Lukacs ’critical thinking of modernity,a large number of researchers will focus on the "history and class consciousness".This article explores the modernity criticism in the early aesthetic thought with Lukacs’ early aesthetic thought as a breakthrough,Has a certain research value.The main body consists of three chapters,the author tries to analyze Lukacs’ criticism of modernity in the early aesthetic thoughts,it includes the "Occurrence study" of Lukacs’ criticism of modernity,the main contents of modern criticism in the early aesthetic thoughts and the theoretical gains and losses of modern criticism in the early aesthetic thoughts.The first chapter is the analysis of the historical background and theoretical origins of modern criticism in Lukacs’ early aesthetic thoughts.Its historical background is reflected in the rise of anti-Semitism and the emergence of European civilized crisis;in this part,Kantians,Hegel and the critical realist writers of the 19 th century in Russia had an influence on Lukacs’ theory.The second chapter is the main part of the essay,which is the concrete content of modernity criticism in the early aesthetic thoughts.The author expresses his criticism of modernity from three parts,which are the "capitalist society: an alienated society","capitalist society: a total loss of society" and "art form: the solution to capitalism,".In the third chapter,the author makes a theoretical analysis of the criticism of modernity in Lukacs’ early aesthetic thoughts.The analysis starts from the theoretical contribution and the theoretical limit.The criticism of modernity in Lukacs’ early aesthetic thoughts influenced the thought of Lukacs himself,and influenced other schools of Marxism abroad as well.In particular,the criticism of modernity in Lukacs’ early aesthetic thoughts not only made a theoretical preparation for his critique of materialization,but also influenced the thoughts of Marcuse and Heller.The theoretical limit of the thought is that it’s power of transforming reality is weak and it has the practical utopian color.The conclusion is partly to grasp the thought of the center of the article.The main purpose of the article is to clarify that Lukacs’ s critique of capitalism through artistic means in early writings is an ideological criticism.The criticism of this ideology is subordinate to Lukacs Critical theory of modernity.