A Comparative Study Of Marx And Jameson 's Critical Thinking Of Modernity

There have different statements about staging theory of modern and pre-modern:Goths conquered the Roman empire, in order to distinguish pre-modern, called the 5th century modern, which was just a time of transition; Hegel regarded 1500 as the beginning of modern history, rational as a symbol of modern, and modernity was based on rational; Habermas accepted Hegel’s ideas, and put the ideas of Hegel to philosophy filed.He believed that Hegel was "the first person to try to’use thoughts to grasp’his times",so "subjectivity"had become the core of Habermas’s modernity theory.As for domestic point of view, there is the most representative point that Yu Wujin gives us a more specific time frame in the phenomenology of modernity:"’Modern’generally refers to from the enlightenment in 17th and 18th century to the end of the Second World War in the 1940’s."So-called modern stage, just only relative, all philosophers and scholars made the essential difference or representation difference between social forms as the division of modern; but the most philosophers complied with the representation difference or from idealism or from perceptual materialism, which often ignored the essential difference.Just Marx made the mode of production as the essential difference to analysis the capitalist society as "modern society" causing the crisis of modernity, relatively comprehensively made a reflection and critique for modernity.The emergence of postmodernism came a quite shock for modernity, and was against the essentialism, the foundation, the rationalism, the modernity, made the "modernity" as an ideological concept, mainly to criticize the "subjectivity" and "rational" of enlightenment.Such a critique of modernity is the result of the development of times.In such a background, supposed to be absorbed in the postmodern research, Jameson returned to the modernity reflection and critique, he did not directly against modernity or simple affirmation, but based on his theory of the postmodern cultural theory and literature, at the same time, Jameson adhered to the totality thought, the dialectic thought and the mode of production of Marxism theory.From the original point of his modernity critique theory, Jameson’s the theory of modernity critique was closely linked to with Marx’s the modernity critique.Marx and Jameson,about the criticism and reflection on modernity, followed the different two logic-capital logic and cultural logic, and the two logic controlling the operation of modern society. As a newly developing country, China’s modernity road is inevitably affected by the two logic.Especially in recent years, Chinese society emerged a series of problems from politics to economy to the rule of law to the construction of value to the cultural spirit, which makes the Chinese modernity road twists and turns.By comparing Marx and Jameson’s thought of modernity critique, analyze that Jameson is how to grasp and understand Marx’s thought of modernity critique, finally the thought and theory of modernity critique returning to the reality development of China’s modernity.Development of China’s modernity is how to face the two different principles, at the same time, these two principles how to better guide the development of Chinese modernity. This is the key problem.