The Turning Of The Cultural Philosophy Study Of British New Marxism

"Culture" is a hot issue in the current international and academic circles. People are always cultural ones and the people world is a cultural world in a sense. As the deep connotation, the culture has influenced the course of human history profoundly all the time. The context of modern, the culture gradually displays its complexity and richness. The culture is one of two or three complex words in English. Marx's philosophy mainly shows concern for human's survival way existence condition and human's liberation and a critical, revolutionary and practical philosophy as the core of. It has a deep implication of cultural criticism and cultural philosophy position. It's the profound cultural criticism spirit that maintains the permanent life in the long historical river and engenders new thoughts and theories. Since the 20th century, the hurricane process of modernization goes around the road of human history by quickly. The thinkers began a new round of reflection and criticism on the human's situation. The social and cultural criticism theory on the advanced capitalist society is the sharp theory scenery in the 20th century's thought history. A group of Western Marxist researchers attempted to form a new cultural analysis mode of Marxism in the new social context. Raymond Williams and Terry Eagleton as the representative figures, the cultural study school of British New Marxism inherited the British Cultural tradition and made a deep cultural criticism on the modernization consequence of English capitalism. They constructed a cultural philosophy of Marxism different from the cultural criticism theory of Frankfurt school.Based the basic theory of Marxism, this thesis discusses the cultural philosophy thought of British New Marxism from the philosophical respect and expounds the turning of it using many study method and the study results of other academic school of Western Marxism. The British New Marxism from the 20th century "Cultural Study" sibilated the traditional basis of British Culture, put forward the proposition of "the Cultural Marxism" and "All criticism is the political criticism", and realized the turning of the cultural investigation position from literary criticism to the cultural political criticism. They inherited critically the Leavisism theory of "culture is the pursuit of perfection", and "the contradiction between the minority culture and mass culture", and put forward the theory of "the culture is the life". They reconstructed the mass culture and realized the cultural respect's shift from the Elite culture to the mass culture. Marx once pointed out the future communist society is a free and all-round development community of human. The cultural British cultural tradition and the cultural dilemma of later capitalist society, and constructed a common culture of all the social members from the culture level. The special study on the significant turning enables us to understand the cultural study trend of British New Marxism deeply and comprehend the unique respect and spirit essence of it. This study has important theoretical meaning and reference value in our thinking of the realistic culture development, especially the current cultural practice.