On Western Marxism's Cultural Critical Theory

Western Marxism is an ideological trend of philosophy and sociology in the twenties of the 20th century.Western Marxism inherits Marx's critical spirit, criticizing drastically the developmental capitalist countries' economy,politics and culture .The cultural critical theory is most arrestive.The paper takes the Marxist materialist dialectics as the guiding ideology ,adopting the research method of combining the macro-research with the micro-research,history with logic,and scientific compare.It consists of the following three parts.First,the paper introduces the evolving process of Western Marxism's conception,generalizes its meaning,schools and representative,analyzes its cultural diversion's social and theoretical reason.Second,the paper divides the Western Marxism's cultural critical thoery in four subjects-Ideology's Critique,Instrumental Reason's Critique,Mass Cultural Critique,and Capitalist Society's Psychological Critique-based on generalized cultural definition,summarizing and analyzing the different theorists' major viewpoint about the subjects by deciphering the representatives' works.Third,the paper makes comparison respectively between Western Marxism's cultural critical theory and Marx's social critical theory,Modern Western Humanism's cultural critical theory,Postmodern's cultural critical theory,pointing out the Western Marxism's cultural critical theory's accomplishment and defect more objectively and more completely.Finally,the paper sums up the Western Marxism's cultural critical theory's significance for our country's modern constructing.