A Study On Marcuse’s Cultural Alienation Thought

The 19th Party Congress pointed out that culture is the soul of a country and a nation.Culture rejuvenates the country and prospers,while strong culture strengthens the nation.Without the prosperity and prosperity of culture,there would be no great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.We should stick to the road of developing socialist culture with Chinese characteristics,stimulate the whole nation’s cultural innovation and create vitality,and build a socialist cultural power.The 21st century is a culture-oriented society,and culture is an important part of social life.Culture was bom in the relationship between man and nature,and practice is an important condition for the generation of culture.The essence of culture is the objectification of human,s essential power.The function of culture includes the shaping of individual ideal human nature and the construction of social value norms.We already know that alienation is not a unique phenomenon in capitalist society.It still exists in various forms on the stage of contemporary society,and among these forms,Cultural alienation is the fundamental form of alienation in contemporary life.Contemporary society is an era of cultural anxiety.When contemporary human beings "consciously realize the significance of culture for human survival,they have clearly seen the crisis and paradox of culture,or,when people begin to determine the basis of survival from themselves through cultural consciousness,they are surprised to find that human’s own conscious or unconscious historical actions and survival activities are destroying this foundation".The essence of alienation theory is the theory about the free development and all-round liberation of human beings.Its basic connotation lies in exploring the state of alienation of human beings,exploring the root causes of such existence and sublating alienation so that human beings can achieve all-round development.Both Marx and Marcuse regard human issues as the core theme of their own theoretical r-esearch,and both regard human,s essential liberation and all-round development as the aim of value.Marx’s alienation theory starts from historical materialism and points out that the origin of alienation and the way to sublate it should be explored in the production relations in which people live.Marcuse,on the basis of Marx’s theory of alienation,combined with his own characteristics of the times,has made a new thinking on alienation theory,which has changed the connotation and form of alienation theory.To explore the logical connection of the evolution of alienation theory,so as to excavate the human concern and critical spirit contained in alienation theory and its enlightenment to Chinese modernization construction.