The Preliminary Study On Georg Luk(?)cs' Theory Of Social Class Consciousness

History and Class Consciousness is one of Lukacs' most important representative works in his early days , for a time it is called "the Bible of Western Marxism". In this book, Lukacs' theory of social class consciousness is considered as his most important representative theory, which is also regarded highly by the field of philosophy. It makes Marxism shake off the popular doctrinarism pattern in his time, and back to the tradition of Marxist historical philosophy.The thesis starts from the historical background of Lukacs' theory of social class consciousness. Through the analysis on the connotation of social class consciousness, the thesis illustrates that social class consciousness is different from individual consciousness and economic consciousness, but it is a particular social class systematic understanding of its historical status and historical mission under certain social relation of production. On the basis of that, the thesis historically analyzes the bourgeoisie's class consciousness, affirms that the bourgeoisie's class consciousness is a historical progress comparing with the pre-capitalistic society, and reveals from a whole view the falsity and inauthenticity of the bourgeoisie's class consciousness as well. And then the thesis starts with the collective dialectic, reification and proletarian class consciousness, illustrates the principal contents of Lukacs' theory of social class consciousness. Through illustrating and analyzing Lukacs' Social Class Consciousness, emphasizes proletarian consciousness' function in proletarian revolution, which is the basic spirit of Lukacs' philosophy thoughts, and the idiographic exhibition of Marxist philosophical heritage. The historical worth of Lukacs' theory of social class consciousness is: it not only corrected the economic determinism of Second Internation, but also enriched and developed Marxist class theory, instructed proletarian revolution better.At the same time, there is also limitation on Lukacs' theory of social class consciousness. The paper gives it an objective evaluation, considering that it aggrandizes the motive function of subjective consciousness, excessively emphasizes the class consciousness motive function. The modern worth of Lukacs' theory of social class consciousness is: there is a very important referenced significance to Chinese socialistic modern construction.