The Predicament And Transcendence Of Frankfurt School 's Enlightenment Thought

With the development of Enlightenment and wide dissemination, enlightenment produce a throng of questions under combination with reality.People have began to reflect on the enlightenment and criticism, which what has done the most effective and the most prominent contribution is The Frankfurt School theorist. From the development of the history of Germany in ideological, the Frankfurt School start to profound consideration for enlightenment reflect in-depth by combine cultural enlightenment with early Western Marxist cultural enlightenment, the former representative figure has Lukacs, Antonio gramsci. The latter has Marx, Nietzsche, Weber, which found paradox of self-enlightenment and were lost in trouble setting itself. The Enlightenment thinking of the Frankfurt School has two aspects, the one is the Enlightenment rationality of history, which is that rational supremacy has become a dominant factor to guide people’s action. According to the principles of the Enlightenment rationality, people to work and life, the spiritual world of people’s lives are made of supreme rationality say count people living history is the creator of Enlightenment rationality. Which cloud not save themselves. The other one is instinctively replace the proletarian revolution, people’s thinking patterns, which is the original negative internal reflection and critique of unity become into a pursuit of absolute exclusion of difference identity rational supremacy principle. Losing of human subjectivity and alienation would lead be forfeit the ability of revolutionary, which is instead of consciousness revolution, But it is impossible come true in real life is impossible. However, the constantly of reflection and spiritual enlightenment has many inspiration meaning.