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Critiques About The Theory Of The End Of Ideology

Posted on:2009-04-14Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:S GaoFull Text:PDF
GTID:2155360245463078Subject:Marxist philosophy
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There are four sections in this paper. The first section refers to the conceptual definition of ideologies. First of all, I find out two kinds of developmental ways of ideologies by researching its conceptual origins in history. Then, I study both the views of Marxism classical writers and the western Marxism thinkers on the ideologies. Both of the ideas they shared and they disagreed laid solid basements for the critical analyze of the theory of End of IdeologyThe second part is about the critical analyze of the theory of End of Ideology with which I begin the analyze of the developmental process of the theory ,what is followed is pointing out the self-contractions in the logic of their theories by the way of knowledgeable and reasonable analyzing the Bell' End of Ideology,and Fukuyama On the end of history. At last, I make my critical conclusions that disclose the essential traits of the theory of End of Ideology. The theory has been integrated intimately with western Cold-War thinking way, blind optimistic On convergence, and decline of western culture. Besides that, I point out that the new forms of ideologies in current time: natural or universal ideologies, national ideologies, and culture-recognized ideologies.The third section of the paper refers to the analysis of capitalist ideologies in recent times, the analysis has three kinds: one which is represented by Jameson is about the form of culture industries; One is about the crash of different civilizations which is on Huntington' behalf. The other is about the modernizing tactics which is in the form of globalization. As followed, I point out that ideologies are ubiquitous in current capitalist society. Ideologies appear in every field, especially in the field of culture. Western value, ideologies often penetrate easily into un-western societies by virtue of globalization.At the last part of the paper, I expound the following contents: theory of ideologies have been deepen in current context. I have make clear that ideologies control the culture and civilization. Besides that, we can also understand that civilization and culture have some things which beyond ideologies. I try to make clear the relations of the general values for all the world and ideologies which refer to the suitable, reasonable arrangements for freedom, justice and efficiency. As following, I explain the relations of ideologies and Class leadership, and expound the meanings of the theory of ideologies for the time being.
Keywords/Search Tags:Ideologies, End of Ideology, Culture Industry, Globalization, Universal Values, Culture Hegemony
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