Philosophical Reflection On The Phenomenon Of Consumption Alienation In Contemporary China

Consumption is one of the most important practical activities of human society.It is not only related to economic problems,but also to social,cultural and philosophical ones.Consumption concept has an important guiding role in consuming behavior.China has began an era of abundant commodity in socialist market economy system after the reform and opening up,along with the deepening of economic development,social transformation and globalization.The lifestyle and consumption concept has greatly changed because of the extremely rich in material conditions.As a result,the unscientific and unreasonable consumption alienation is increasingly prominent,which will lead to terrible effects on the social development as well as the ecological environment.To some extent,consumption alienation is also a great shock to the human pursuit of all-round development.For our own good,there is a necessity for us to take a profound consideration about consumption alienation behavior.This paper attempts to explain and criticize the main two kinds of Chinese consumption alienation from Marxism point of view: conspicuous consumption and symbolic consumption.This paper is divided into five parts.In the first part,the domestic and foreign research achievement along with the research background and significance will be given an simple presentation.About the second part,there will be an introduction to the essence of consumption alienation and its pattern in China.Then comes to the third part.This part is going to analysis the conversion of the whole social consumption ideology and the effects of developing tendency caused by conspicuous consumption from the macroscopic view.Speaking of the forth part,it is going to analysis the relationship between symbolic consumption and the lost of human subjectivity from the microcosmic view.At last,the fifth part,it will explore and discover the constructive measures to deal with the phenomenon of consumption alienation from the theory of humanistic in Marxism.At the end of this paper,we had draw a conclusion that correct and reasonable consume concept,as an ideology,has an guiding role for the human consumption.However,consumption problems is increasing prominent with the development of social economy.It is related to the human sustainable development more of the human lifestyle.It is connected with economic field,more importantly,with cultural,social,and philosophical ones.Facing the severe situation of Chinese population,resources,environment,and ecology,it is imperative for us to propose scientific and reasonable consumption concept.