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Cultural Right: The Dimension Of Self-Approval And Other-Approval

Posted on:2006-12-11Degree:DoctorType:Dissertation
Country:ChinaCandidate:Y P ZhangFull Text:PDF
GTID:1115360182956954Subject:Marxist philosophy
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The research of the humanity to the culture and its form has centuries-old history. But in the reality, facing the infestation of cultural power and cultural hegemony, it is very difficult to find the theoretical supporting that can contend with them. The humanity, just in such oneself-creating cultural puzzling, loses the subject status in the culture. The culture right is the unification and summary of power and right. As the point of penetration, the main line and the value of cultural research, the culture right is definitely brought into academic fields. This is the precondition of making the cultural research deep and having benefit to the humanity, even is the guidepost of the humanity realizing the self-approval and other-approval, is the cause of the cultural research leaving completely the disputation between the culturalism and the structuralism, and realizing the veering in true meaning, is the avenue of returning to original cultural research and making cultural research theory more and more perfect. Cultural study pays attention to the world of daily life and points to the cultural hegemony, its essence can't break away from the question of cultural right. It is a kind of relative grasping to cultural activity of cultural subject and change law of the cultural object; it contains to following cultural activity of people and includes reflection, criticism and surmounting to human culture achievement too. World is composed of "rhythm"; natural rhythm can really be feeling when the human culture accumulates to certain extent; social rhythm is a result of the human cultural activity; culture is the mark of people's feeling to rhythm; "feeling rhythm"is the logic starting point that the culture is studied. The cultural right is the unification of power and right. The cultural right not only contains the nation, the station, the organization or the individual accepting, resisting, producing, expensing culture rights and interests, it also includes taking on the obligation of inheriting and passing on culture. There is not power or right departing from culture, because the expression or request of any right is carried out by culture. Meanwhile there is not the culture departing from power or right as well, because the existence of culture is just expressed through power or right. So the culture and rights and interests cannot be separated. Cultural right, as breakthrough point , thread, value orientation of cultural study and being put into academic fields, is the premise making cultural study going down thoroughly and benefiting to the mankind; even is the signpost of mankind realizing self-approval and other-approval; is the avenue of making cultural study go out of the conflict of culturalism and structuralism and realizing real transformation, getting back to the early cultural research, making the theory of culture study better perfect gradually. The cultural right's existence is objective existence of the certain historical stage in the course of social development. The cultural right, living together with the human society, is enriched and developed gradually by the human society. At the same time, cultural right reacts up on the human society and becomes important headspring of civilized degree promotion and advancement of human society. The cultural right is the human rights concept's subset and concretion, even is the highest-level request for rights and interests in the human rights system. The proposition and concern of cultural right are the contemplation of person's species-essence and also the reflection of person's species-essence. It condenses the complex of the human nature, and then indicates the integrationbetween person and natural and the people's surmounting to history and nature. In fact, the human realizes timely the promotion of culture in the process of sought, realizing, enjoying, and holding of cultural right. Marx has said: "Any true philosophy all is the essence of the times spirit". The times context is namely the globalization and association practice. Practice materialism is the logical basis of cultural right existence. The dialectical materialism is the dialectical thinking way of the cultural right existence and driving society progresses. In cultural research, while strengthen the cultural right's function and value, we should always insist on using connection, development, and overall views to think about, analysis and solve the problems. Cultural right is not an isolated concept, as breakthrough point of cultural study, but a comprehensive, interdisciplinary, academic research dimension including culture, politics and economic society. The Marxism theory is the theoretical foundation for cultural research. Especially, since initial stage of the 20th century, the western Marxism scholars have begun the cultural research on the basis of the Marxism theory, such as Grimace's leadership theory, Althusser's ideology theory, the Frankfurt School's subject principle and the Birmingham school's theory of daily life, which all inherited Marxism position, view and method from different flanks and developed the Marx theory. Therefore, the theory of cultural right is the result of the Marx materialism when material wealth of the human society attains certain degree and the human civilization lies in the specific stage, is the generalization and summation to the practice view, historical view, dialectical view and cultural view, is the core explanation to cultural view on the basis of the practice development, the historical development, the dialectical mind accumulation at certain degree, also is inheriting and developing to Marxism materialism, is the crystallization and symbol of person's assimilation, and is a kind of return of Marxism at present times. Marx proposed that culture was the people's life style from the practiceangle, so culture also is the people's practicing way, thus it makes culture research be better enriched, developed and perfected. The cultural right is important constitution of sovereignty as to nationality, country. The sovereignty can be defined the nationality composed by individual and country in certain space and time field form and insist custom and belief and so on in spiritual aspect, the non-material, abstract rights and interests'the possession, use, and handle. Moreover, with the exception of this nationality or government on behalf of the country having right to decide how to handle the possession, use and handle, they are independent, and not interfered by any other external strength or other nationalities because their independence is supreme. The cultural right also is important constitution of the human rights as to the concrete person. Person and right is the human rights'core. It is the merge of the right and the humanity. The subject of human rights is the person, but the subject does not accept the right passively. The human right is not determined firstly, and then seeks for the subject of human rights who has the qualifications. Just as the opposite, the subject of human rights has existed before right and human rights. The human rights is a right, which the subject of human rights requests in the morals, the subject definition is essential condition of the human rights. Therefore, the human rights become important constitution of the cultural rights finally, as it only can be found the explanation in the subject of human rights theory. The cultural right even is important constitution of the civil rights as to common citizen, their social organization and governor. The culture right contains mainly the culture right of citizen and democratic right of citizen, for example, the dignity rights of citizen and social groups, the portrait rights, education rights, the lowest cultural safeguard rights all should certainly be included into the cultural right of citizen and social group, it is the rule of definition the responsibility relation among the citizen, the social group andthe national rights and interests. Therefore, the shapes of cultural right mainly include tertiary dimension of cultural sovereignty, cultural human rights and cultural civil rights etc. The culture rights under the human rights emphasizes the individual's cultural right or social group's cultural right much more; the culture right under the sovereignty emphasizes rights and interests of the nationality and the country; however, the civil rights emphasizes rights and interests of the relation between citizen and governor at present times. Bourdieu carried on the culture studies from the social capital, the culture capital angle, in fact, namely the research to cultural right. Through the re-knowing of the capital nature, Bourdieu's capital theory thinks the material capital can appears as certain non-matter form and the non-matter capital can appears as certain the material form. In Bourdieu's view, the reversible transformation realizes disinterested exchange. The material capital among them refers to economical capital; the non-material capital refers to the cultural and social capital. The economical capital is the currency and institutionalization's property rights, the cultural capital is institutionalization's education qualifications, the social capital is institutionalization's certain noble honor and shows a certain social duty and rights and interests. Since modern times, the globalization tide is sweeping the human society. The globalization process will unavoidably have a far-reaching impact on the civilized pattern of mankind. In this process, the new world civilization is shaping gradually. In the history of human development, cultural development is directly proportional to social progress. Therefore, the quickening of the globalization course not only improves the homogeneity of culture but also promotes the heterogeneity of culture, on the other hand, it still be restricted by them at the same time. In other words, the globalization has strengthened both gradual convergent global culture and the self-approval of the regional cultural ethnicity in this course. This is the two-way course happened in the same time: separating the civilized history of the world from the politicalhistory of the world to looking, the political history is full of confliction, and civilized history includes both merge and fight. In the globalization process, the civilization constantly integrates, and the culture continues keeping the pluralism. The view is worth probing into further that thinks Western civilization and life style can be expanded to the whole world and leads to the contradiction and conflict between various kinds of civilization and becomes the key element of western culture hegemony. In this meaning, it is appropriate for using cultural hegemony to explain western culture advantage attacking. The great development and the integrity transformation of economic society induce a series of problems, such as the idea collision, thought fusion, the confliction of multi-value views, so it is necessary for us to study self-consciously on the faced reality problems, especially, the study of economic social transformation, the thought and culture changes and the diversion of the culture. At present, the diversion of China culture will deeply relate to the present situation of China society as well as the future trend, its theory rationality, the scientific nature directly will affect the dimension of China economy society transformation. While facing the globalization, the modernization and the localization, how to grasp concretely the condition of cultural right in China and forming the culture with the character of the times, China, and the world at the same time is the best choice to promote cultural right poverty in native country towards ending.
Keywords/Search Tags:cultural right, insightful reflection / rhythm, identity, dimension
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