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A Study On Lefebvre’s Thought Of Aestheticization Of Everyday Life

Posted on:2018-02-26Degree:DoctorType:Dissertation
Country:ChinaCandidate:S N WuFull Text:PDF
GTID:1315330515977759Subject:Foreign Marxism
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This thesis starts from the vision of culture philosophy,and then makes analysis,organizes and explains systematically as far as Lefebvre’s theory source,theory idea,theory content and theory meaning of aesthetic thoughts in everyday life.This thesis holds the opinion that Lefebvre’s aesthetic thoughts in daily life inherited and continued the culture criticism tradition of western modern aestheticism,and casted away criticism vision of traditional class analysis and political revolution,and consequently opened up new philosophy research area.Lefebvre inherits the aesthetic thoughts opened up since Kant and solves several difficulties of technique rational alienations,public cultural alienations and so on in our daily modern life.In order to illustrate the understanding of the aesthetic thoughts of daily life more clearly,Lefebvre firstly analyzes daily life and its modern circumstances,and then puts forward the necessity of aestheticism in daily life.Lefebvre made an attempt to help people release from the past cage through the factors of perceptional regression,festival celebration,hilarity and urbanization,and then viewed the daily life in modern world with aesthetic eyes.On one hand,different from scientific and religious means of expression,aestheticism endowed daily life with practical reality.It referred to aesthetic activities as the fundamental activities to confirm people’s existence.On the other hand,aestheticism affirmed the human’s instinct of existence because of the emphasis of subjectivity.In the meaning of ultimate concern,aestheticism endowed daily life with some kind of beauty ideally in order to lay the practical foundation of aestheticism solving crisis in daily life.Lefebvre’s aesthetic thoughts of daily life are some kind of revolt against human’s dissimilation,fetish and instrumentalizing.In a way,aestheticism in daily life has a kind of self-criticism attitude and it is a tendency of thoughts in which human reflect themselves.Lefebvre’s aesthetic thoughts of daily life have deep influence on revealing modern people’s survival predicament.Starting from the dimension of cultural criticism,the concrete explanation of Lefebvre’s aesthetic thoughts of daily life can clarify the relationship between aestheticism and daily life.And at the same time,it can provide new way to solve modern people’s survival predicament.Lefebvre’s aesthetic thoughts of daily life has profound connotation of humanism,whose modern meaning lies in expanding the theory vision of modern cultural philosophy research and it can provide important theory reference for solving the modern culture problems in China.On one hand,aestheticism in daily life is helpful to expand the theory vision of contemporary philosophy research.Aestheticism in daily life is the continuation of modern aestheticism and it expands the research of critical theory about daily life under the vision of modernity.On the other hand,aestheticism in daily life can provide theory reference for solving the general alienation of public culture in consumer society,the mistaken acknowledge of consumerism myth and the breakage of countrymen’s contemporary value.
Keywords/Search Tags:Lefebvre, Everyday life, Aestheticization, Culture critic
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