The Discussion Of Giddens's Criticism To The Historical Materialism

The papers take the people's freedom and liberation for the theoretical concern , regarding the idea of the response to the modern risk as the main issues ,looking on the Giddens's critique of historical materialism as the theoretical breakthrough, hoping that through literature and comparative analysis of research methods can we begin the research. It focuses on the following issues, the first is how to understand the understanding of Giddens to the modernity; the second is how to understand Marx's response to the modernity's risk; the third is how to understand the critique of Giddens to the historical materialism; the fourth is how to respond to Giddens's critique to the historical materialism.The papers are mainly made up of the introduction and the three chapters.The Introduction explains the need to resolving the problem, the research status, the research ideas and research methodologies.The first chapter mainly discusses the emergence of modernity and the respond of historical materialism to the modernity's risk.Chapter II discusses the criticism of historical materialism by Giddens, mainly including two issues. Firstly, why Giddens criticize the historical materialism; secondly, how Giddens criticize the historical materialism. Giddens critique of historical materialism started mainly from two aspects; firstly, the criticism of the premise of the creation of theory of historical materialism; secondly, the criticism of the theory of historical materialism.Chapter III discusses how to develop the historical materialism in the respond to the critique to it by Giddens. For Giddens's critique of historical materialism, this paper proposes that the critical theory that the creation Giddens made on the premise of historical materialism and historical materialism is not valid.After the study, this paper thinks that Giddens's critique of historical materialism has its reasonable elements, having the promotion of positive significance for the development of historical materialism. But his criticism does not discredit the historical significance of historical materialism. Historical materialism is still the ideal choice of how to respond the modernity's risk and realizing the human freedom..