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The Jewish Question And Modernity

Posted on:2009-06-08Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:W G PengFull Text:PDF
GTID:2166360242482729Subject:Marxist philosophy
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"Freedom","liberation" and "reason" as the fundamental characteristics of modern philosophy had also became the centre of modern philosophers'thinking, but modernity, in theory or practice was still unable to overcome its own contradictions and paradox."On Jewish question"as an access, young Marx both critic the understanding of "freedom" and "liberation" in modern philosophy because they actually contained the dangers of slavery, oppression; and further, he explained that the modern logic was actually a rejection differences in the "Other" in theory,which represented the special class discourse hegemony was bound to lead to the rule of identity. "On the Jewish problem"standed for Marx's critique on modern values and the spirit. Young Marx insighted into the progress of the political emancipation and limitations, and pointed out that political liberation and human liberation could not confuse .Political revolution was the prerequisite for the liberation of mankind.Critique on theory of modernity, young Marx was bound critic the core of the modern concept - free.On the basis of the critique about concept of freedom in the past, he proposed his own concept of freedom, that freedom was not the premise of separatism. Not "people as isolated, retreated to their own list of freedom." but They were jointed. In the community people could be truly free. The realization of freedom Marx hold a reality idea, that freedom is not only ideological freedom. People could not escape to the spiritual life, they must be dynamic to transform the realities of life, eliminate the most important root -- private ownership which led to the alienation . Therefore, the road of liberation was the activities of reality rather than abstract principles, not rational activities.Marx believed that the real solution to the Jewish problem was thoroughly criticize the identity logic. Because, in his view in the logic of identity, liberation was actually a prerequisite for the oppression,and the Jewish was obedient to the conditions. Therefore, based on Powell , the representatives of political emancipation meant to resolve the issue undoubtedly could not solve the Jewish problem, but the oppression of Jewish by the rule to provide a theoretical excuse. Bourgeois revolution wanted to attain political freedom, liberation, democracy was not all people's freedom, liberation, democracy, which only in the name of all people was a political slogan standed the will of the special class. Marx opposed to this identity logic, he advocated a form of human emancipation and liberation on Jewish.Liberation was not that a part of people to kill another part of people, and created a whole absolutely unanimous, but all people could play to their personality, and achieved common development for all during the free association with others, so everyone was purpose. Of course, the liberation of the real premise was to abolish private ownership which was the based of identity thinking. As Marx always paid his attention to the real life ,in the modernity critique at the same time, he inspected the pattern of human existence in the survival perspective. The survival of the people expressed in the following three aspects: first, the "survival" of their own meant negative, and was different from the "ready-made"; secondly, the "survival" meant a future-oriented possibility ;finally, the "survival" meant that the existence of the people, not from "what is" but from "how" to understand the significance. It was the the relationship between"thinking" and "existence" that reversed, young Marx's way of thinking achieved a fundamental transformation: no longer from the point of the metaphysical way of thinking to consider, but based on the survival of the position to solve the reality problems.In all,the reason why Young Marx was able to go beyond modernity was that his purpose of theory was different from the previous philosophers"Philosophers have only interpreted the world by different ways, but the problem is to change the world." From interpreting the world to changeing the world became the target of Marx all life, which was also the key how Marx went beyond the modernity.
Keywords/Search Tags:Modernity
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