The Historical Logic Of The Frankfurt School Of Critical Theory

The evolution and its mechanism of Frankfurt School's Critical Theory are the keys to understand the negative aesthetics, which are weak links in its present theoretical study .This dissertation intends to clarify it evolutionary logic looking for the speaking and its way of Critical Theory and Critical Aesthetics by reading the classics. In the utterance background and sprit trend, the Critical Theory and aesthetic theory of Frankfurt School are the developing result of the capital's logic , the cultural tradition and the academic debate, Serving as the guiding significance for constructing our theory of art and aesthetic theory, which are rich in spirit of the age and national spirit to us.The introduction summarise the history evolution, the history logic and the contemporary Chinese significance of the Critical Theory of Frankfort School, etc. The part tries to distinguish the evolutionary process for three time intervals. Accompanying, we will shows its historical logic embodied by history evolution, which included the perform of capital's logic, the support of western tradition, and the inside debate. On the basis, the part paints out Critical Theory's significance to contemporary China.The first chapter discusses the logical starting point, whose theoretical form is called Critical Materialism. In Critical Materialism, Marx's early philosophy criticism, especially Paris Manuscript, influence Frankfort School establishing its humanism's critic, among which, such as perceptual activity, human nature's involution are the good luck to construct Critical aesthetics. Moreover, the logical foundation of Critical Theory is the cultural critical theory's real soil, too. Besides, the chapter discusses three fundamental subjects of early Critical Theory, summing up its theoretical characteristic and its methodological principle.The second chapter and the third chapter discuss the deeper logic, whose theoretical form is Societal Critical Theory. The new logic of Frankfurt School's Critical Theory is the new theoretical impetuous, which produces in the new form of the control of society or the Anonymous Authority. The theoretical pulse form the dialectic of enlightenment to the dialectic of negate declares the necessity form the philosophy critic to the aesthetic critic, which can be seen by the methodology of Critical Theory. For getting a clear understanding of the theoretical characteristic and the principle of methodology in the Critical theory's development and prosperity's time, the third chapter analyses several fundamental subjects by contrarily reading, the inherent correlation of which makes the aesthetic three-dimensional appear out.The fourth chapter analyses the logical torsion of Critical Theory, which is amended to Critical Sociology by Habermas. The chapter simply discusses several fundamental problems, such as the birth's cause of the Critical Sociology, its theoretical structure, and the characteristic of methodology.The Critical Theory of popular Culture's study has the far-reaching effect on the western Cultural Studies and the Chinese study of popular culture, thus showing clearly Critical Theory's significance, especially Adorno's pattern. This is the fifth chapter.The ending part has summarized the enlightenment with Frankfort's Critical Theory gives us. We persist that Frankfort's Critical Theory must be studied in the cultural context of resisting modernity. Only studying so can we break the cultural password implied in the process, which consists of art ( art's paradox ), concurrently, observing the solemnity and sacredness of the aesthetic saving.We have the very long road to walk: closely noticing the moving of societal real, catching the silhouette of Critical Theory or Critical Aesthetic in all sorts of contemporary theory form, and rethinking the essence and trouble of Critical Theory or Critical Aesthetic, inquiring about the soul of survival, conjecturing Muse's temper, by applying Marxism position, viewpoint and method.