The Contemporary Validity Of Subjectivity Concept

"Death of subject"has been a common voice of contemporary philosophy. Itcan't be doubted that contemporary philosophy has an insight into the seriousproblems of the modern subjectivity concept. Its critique is reasonable and meaningful.However, whether the critique is the sufficient evidence of"Death of subject"andwhether negating the subjectivity concept completely is the best choice deserve ourfurther research."Death of subject"not just means negating the specific viewpoints of modernsubjectivity concept; it is also related to a premise which is the validity of subjectivityconcept. This issue is the basis of all research to subjectivity concept. If we equate thecritique to the negation of subjectivity concept itself, we will simplify the issue, it canalso misguide us and makes us missing the key issue. In order to treat the validity ofsubjectivity concept seriously, we should define the basic meaning of subjectivityconcept clearly; on this basis we can understand the true purpose of critique tosubjectivity in contemporary philosophy.Subject refers in particular to people and Descartes is the first one who achievedthis task. Descartes made people different form the other substances and endowedpeople the identity of subject. However, how can people become a subject? In ouropinions, subject undertakes our pursuing of freedom and pursuing of freedom is themission of subject. People call themselves subject means pursuing of freedom.Relatively, as a specific property, subjectivity makes people become subject. Based onour understanding of these two concepts, we think that subjectivity concept aims tofind the road to get freedom. Through the history of philosophy, differentphilosophers have different opinions but they all pursue freedom. So we think that thesubject shouldn't be eliminated, it is also can't be eliminated. The subjectivity conceptdeserves our continual research.However, the subjectivity concept is critiqued strongly in contemporary philosophy, what is the reason? Based on deep research of the critique to subjectivityin contemporary philosophy, we find that the contemporary philosophers still has thesubjectivity idea and this idea does not contradict to their critique. Their critiquedirects at subjective metaphysics. In other words, the contemporary philosophersdeclare the elimination of cognition subjectivity rather than the subjectivity conceptitself.Now we get the real reason that making modern subjectivity concept sinking intodilemmas which is mixed with the metaphysics. Modern cognition subjectivity'sdilemmas are not occasional. It is in accordance with the internal logic of subjectivemetaphysics. Epistemology is the main content of modern philosophy and it believesthat nature is the enemy of people's freedom. In order to become free, people shouldget the knowledge of nature and control nature. So cognitive activities are regarded asa effective way to get freedom. Subject is regarded as cognition subject andsubjectivity is regarded as cognition subjectivity. According to the logic of subjectivemetaphysics, we need to strengthen our cognitive ability in order to expand ourfreedom. The desire of controlling nature increases without stop and people's rationalpower is praised without limits. In the end people's rational power becomes a kind ofstrength to dominating everything. People descend to a tool of rational power. In theprocess of mixed to metaphysics, subjectivity concept turns to the reverse side. Peoplelose freedom.According to our opinions, subjectivity concept must make stop the relevancywith metaphysics and base on a new foundation in order to get new explanations.When we understand the opinions above-mentioned, we will realize the positivemeaning of the critique to subjectivity in contemporary philosophy. The eliminationof subjective metaphysics by contemporary philosophers exactly provides subjectivityconcept with an opportunity for development.Among the spring tide of critique to subjectivity, Marx is the pioneer and makesimmense impact. By exterminating all metaphysics and starting philosophy of praxis,Marx makes a revolution in western philosophy history. This revolutionary change inwestern philosophy history exerts an important influence on subjectivity concept. Benefit from contemporary philosophy of praxis, subjectivity concept gets a newfoundation. Marxist philosophy of praxis offers a new field of vision for subjectivityconcept in contemporary time.it brings about an opportunity for the survival ofsubjectivity concept and makes our constructive trial possible.Human emancipation is lifetime pursuit of Marx and Marxist philosophy ofpraxis is often be considered as the science of human emancipation. As the ultimatetarget and theme, the issue of freedom is the theoretical kernel of Marxist philosophy.On account of the deep care of people's real fate, Marxist philosophy appears as thetheory of subjectivity. Marx considers practice as the preferential activity and studiessubject and subjectivity on the bases of practice. Practice isn't a kind of activitywithout value consideration. Indeed, It is a kind of activity considering value. Itcontains people's valuation pursuance and ideal of value.so the practice subject is thevalue subject and the survival characteristics is the value subjectivity. Form thebeginning, subject undertakes people's pursuit of valuable freedom, and valuesubjectivity is corresponding with the real intention of subjectivity concept.In this paper, we mainly discuss Marxist theory of value subjectivity. Frombeginning to end, Marx researches the issue of people's free and all-sideddevelopment. It is obvious that the theory of subjectivity concept is the central contentof Marxist philosophy. There are significant differences between Marxist theory ofvalue subjectivity and modern subjectivity concept. According to Marxist theory ofvalue subjectivity concept, person isn't abstract cognition subject but a realistic valuesubject. It has been proved that the cognition activity is not the real way to getfreedom and it has no probability. Practice activity is the cogent way and the practicalability is people's value subjectivity. Marx considers the practice activity and itshistory as the foundations of freedom which attaches immense importance to realityand history. Because of the attention to human emancipation and the realistic plan forpeople's free and all-sided development, Marxist theory of value subjectivity isconsidered as the valid explanation of subjectivity concept in contemporary time.Marxist theory of value subjectivity provides the proofs for the contemporary validityof subjectivity concept.