On Heller's Everyday Life Critique Theory

This thesis mainly focuses on a East European philosopher Agnes Heller's Everyday Life theory, and tries to find out the inheritations not only between her critiques and the New east European Marxism, but also between her critiques and Marxism. We can see the importance of the discussion of everyday life through these comparations.The first part of this thesis is about the source of Heller's theory--her teacher Ceorge Lukacs. Lukacs's interesting about alienation and practice obviously inherited from Marxism, and his theory about everyday life inspired Heller.The second part is about Heller's theory itself. She discussed everyday life in a different way that she pay more attention on the people in everyday life. In her opinion, people is the fundamental factor, if we want to transform our society, we must change our attitude first. Everyday life has a bigotry structure that it always encourages the repeatition of practices and thoughts, which abrases people's ability of creativity, and the alienation in society makes people ceaselessly chasing after more and more money, sometimes even imposing other people. This kind of society must be changed, and Heller's method is to change people's attitude at first.The third part of this thesis is to compare Heller's theory with other philosophers' theories about everyday life. Through this comparation, the limitation of Heller's philosophy could be found. All of Henri Lefebvre, E. Edmund Husserl, Ludwig Wittgenstein and Martin Heidegger are disscused here.The fourth part is to compare Heller's Everyday life critiques with Marxism. She herself once said she not only inherited from Marx, but also abandoned Marx. The relations between them is worth discussing. Compared with Marx's theory about society revolution, we may find Heller's theory is not quite profound. How could we change the society a more humanistic and free place? The change of people's attitude is not enough, the key point is to thoroughly destroy the private ownership and the alienation caused by the private ownership.