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The Social Critical Ideology And Its Enlightenment Advanced By Eric·Hobsbawm

Posted on:2009-05-01Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:G Q WangFull Text:PDF
GTID:2167360272463583Subject:Marxist philosophy
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With a new viewpoint of "Looking history from below to up" has been advanced in UK, the Marxist historians synthesized the Marxist materialism with history in UK, and explained the new viewpoint which the history shall be promoted and improved by the lower classes, so that discarded that historical determinism by the social elites, and explained the new viewpoint what is a kind of developing viewpoint based on industry and technique. The writer is basing herself on exploration and analysis to the English Marxist Historian "Eric·Hobsbawm "about social historical development in this thesis, is upholding the fundamental principles "Integration of theory with Practice", and made a systematic introduction on his social critical ideology and its enlightenment for Chinese real society fully depend upon the scientific approach "To seek truth from facts" and simple and writing with ease and grace.The writer continuously upholds a logical system with materialist conception of history, and attempts to make a new explanation on contents in every part. Chapter 1: The formation and development of Hobsbawm's social critical ideology .As a key content in this thesis, the second chapter is made up with five parts as following. Part 1: Making a key research and study on the relation between the Western Industrial Revolution and social improvement, He made an introduction to the Industrial Revolution of UK and its meaning, he thought as the society must be promoted and developed by the development of productive forces and progress on science and technique with the schedule of Industrial Revolution in UK. His thought still can be used for the real society in China now. Part 2: Exploring Eric·Hobsbawm's thought regards relation between the political movement and establishment for democratic state. The writer makes a systematic study on the Great Revolution of France, makes a careful investigation on how to be happened, developed, effected in the Great Revolution of France, so that advanced a viewpoint that the Great Revolution of France is a political revolution with vigour and vitality to be effected by and economic reason. Throughout research and study on the Revolution, the common aspiration of people's seeking equality, freedom and peace. Part 3: Making a systematic researching and study on his viewpoint to the state, what is a national theory of organicism, showing a kind of thought with organicism. Part 4: Making an analysis to his thought in the post-modern society, As a historian with sense of responsibility, Eric·Hobsbawm didn't evaded the question advanced by post-modern, he had admitted the real society has become a society of post-modern difference from the modern society, he has been with keen sentiments of post-modern society.And defined his viewpoint of post-modern. Part 5: Exploration and analysis to his historical overall viewpoint, making introduction on his researched social overall history including many contents such as social economy, politics, ideology and culture etc. He paid attention to make a full investigation on the history on the World, and maintained analysis and reformation for the Global History depend upon the viewpoint of "The Viewpoint of Global History". He is continuously making careful study and research on the Global History basing on basic principle of materialist conception of history, and has created a new mode and way to make study on social history from two visual fields of progressive historical viewpoint and "From under to up" viewpoint. Chapter 3:Taking apart Hobsbawm's social critical ideoloely.The special arrangement was made for the article formation in order to make an overall research on the social critical ideology advanced by Eric·Hobsbawm from different viewpoint of economy, politics and social historic development. The writer still adheres to the viewpoint of historical materialism and systematology, She continuously adheres to dialectics, makes a systematic analysis to the social critical ideology depend on the ideological system of Eric·Hobsbawm, has full acknowledges on Eric·Hobsawm's social critical ideology basing on the real historic development of China and on the World. And has disclosed his social crtical ideology's basic meaning and character, fingered his lack, given some useful enlightenment of the social critical ideology advanced by Eric·Hobsawm to promote China's Socialist modernization.
Keywords/Search Tags:Eric·Hobsbawm, social critical ideology, historical materialism
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