A Study On The Ideological Theory Of Jameson's Cultural Historicism

Just as people wore something before they used the concept of “clothing,”Philosophers lived in ideologies before they invented the concept of “ideology”.It can be seen that there is a close connection between ideology and individuals.And the concept of ideology and the narrow sense of the concept of culture in the connotation of the existing overlapping parts.As a result,contemporary western marxists often use these two concepts in a mixed way.This means that culture,as a representation of the spirit of The Times and as a way of life,runs through the whole issue of ideology.Especially after World War II,Western capitalist society entered a new stage of development.With the development of science and technology and the improvement of productivity,the material needs of people in Western European countries were met unprecedentedly.At the same time,the trend of materialization gradually became popular.Correspondingly,culture presents the posture and characteristics of commercialization,visualization and space.In this cultural atmosphere,the argument of "the end of history" represented by Fukuyama has become increasingly noisy,and the validity of Marxism has been questioned and challenged.It is on the basis of perspective and exposure of the disease of this culture that Jameson advocates a "historical" and "dialectical" cultural analysis of such a society saturated with all kinds of information and "aesthetic" manifestations,so as to "understand" the cultural laws of late capitalism.As a marxist scholar who takes it as his duty to maintain marxist ideological theory,Jameson,on the one hand,takes the initiative to meet the ideological challenge posed by "the end of history conclusion",clarifies fukuyama's misreading of marxist end of history and refutes fukuyama's idealism tendency of the end of history conclusion.Jameson,on the other hand,inherited Marx's ideology theory,absorbing the western marxism lukacs materialization theory,Sartre's existentialism theory as a whole,the Frankfurt school's critique of aesthetic theory "culture industry" and the alto plug ideology of structuralism theory,etc.,to build their own ideological analysis model to lay the ideological foundation.In order to truly construct a model of Marxist ideological analysis based on the late capitalist society,Jameson re-systematically sorts out and evaluates the development history of Marxist ideological theory,from tradition to modernity,and puts forward a two-stage theory of the development history of Marxist ideological theory.These two stages include the theoretical analysis of the three modes of traditional Marxist ideology and the criticism of the four types of historical split of modern Marxist ideology.In fact,Jameson ideology theory of marxism development history of the two main stages and seven concrete analysis model of the theory analysis and criticism,is designed to emphasize the ideology of the marxist tradition,each have insufficient and defect analysis,there is no essential,or each of the different analysis model can be based on the analysis of the advantages of conversion to the integrated use of object and subject.One of the problems facing the construction of the ideological analysis model of cultural historicism is to reflect on the ideological dilemma of the traditional solution to historical interpretation.Both cultural relic research direct negation historicism,historicism and solve historicism trouble again to the new trouble in the process,or type in the name of "historicism" Nietzsche historicism,structure typology of subject and object structure of oneness,in essence is not completely solve the history of socialist ideology.On the basis of clearing the "fog" of the ideological dilemma of historical interpretation,Jameson points out that the way out of the dilemma of historicism can be found in the theory of Marxist mode of production.Through the diachronic and synchronic investigation of the concept of mode of production,the concept of mode of production is sublimated to a kind of total structure system.When the mode of production itself is transformed into a synchronic system of the whole social relations,the semi-autonomy existing in all levels of the system shows that the ultimate decisive role of economy is essentially a non-role.Culture,ideology,justice,politics,economy and other aspects of the interconnection,and mutual transformation,in this system between the culture and economy beyond the general close,which is also the late capitalist society obvious fact.Jameson ideology theory of marxism development history of the two main stages and seven concrete analysis model of the theory analysis and criticism,as well as to solve the ideology of historical explanation on the history of traditional dilemma reflection established on the basis of the cultural history of socialist ideology,the interpretation of the principle analysis on the overall,dialectical and historical framework to build the "triple horizon" of marxist ideology hermeneutic perspective.The ultimate appeal of his theory is to restore the critical function of Marxist ideology in the context of late capitalism,which is consistent with the theoretical character of Marxism keeping pace with The Times.From the perspective of combining theory with practice,history with reality,Jameson moves further from "theoretical construction" to "self-application" of theory.Firstly,the ideology hermeneutics constructed is applied to the theory of capitalist cultural stages,and the corresponding cultural logic of each historical stage of capitalism is explored.In the process of historicalization,the late capitalist culture has changed beyond recognition,which not only "reveals" the essence of this new cultural form as cultural logic,but also "decodes" the ideological curtain of its hidden logic of capital expansion,the rule logic of mirroring and the hegemony logic of cultural colonization."Where is the fall,where to climb up",Jameson understands that individual was distorted,late capitalism society repressed culture on the survival predicament,but he put beyond the cultural politics of "hyperspace" mission lies in cognitive mapping a strategy,intended to "look forward to a global proletarianization process".It can be seen that the difficulties encountered at the cultural level also need to find the strength to break through the cultural barriers at the cultural and political level.Jameson's cognitive mapping strategy is essentially the code of "class consciousness",hoping to awaken the awareness of the oppressed groups in the late capitalist society through cognitive mapping,and to establish the union politics against the system,so as to develop toward the direction of the union of socialist freemen.In short,Jameson is committed to the contemporary interpretation of Marx's philosophy and believes that Marx has already established the “proper position” for us to deal with postmodernism.Therefore,Jameson can face up to the "disintegration of the center","collapse of the foundation" and "the end of history" in the late capitalist society.To defend the validity of Marxism in the stage of late capitalism,as a kind of interest,as a kind of appeal,runs through Jameson's ideological system.It can be said that Jameson's reinterpretation and reconstruction of Marxist ideology hermeneutics analysis model has made important theoretical contributions to restoring the historical status of Marxism,activating the vitality of Marxist methodology and broadening the research field of Marxist ideology theory.But there is no doubt that Jameson also has the defects of reconstructing Marxist ideological analysis model,the bias of "revising" Marxist historical materialism,and the utopian color of constructing political union in his cognitive mapping strategy.In any case,Jameson's ideological theory of cultural historicism can also provide some valuable theoretical reference and theoretical resources for the construction of socialist ideology in China from different aspects and levels.