Marx's Sublation Of Hegel's Civil Society And Its Contemporary Value

"Civil society"as a historical category, it is development has different characters in different period. Aristotle, Tomas Aquinas, Rock, Montesquieu etc. state from civilization angle to research civil society, but Hegel and Marx transform their focus on economics, distinguished civil society and the state. Hegel is an important philosopher in western country; his theory is the basis of the western civil society research and it promotes the development of western historical philosophy and political philosophy. Although the academia has some researches on Hegel's civil society,but it is not enough. The theory needs further explore especially for the relationship between Hegel and Marx's civil society. Therefore, the paper is further analyzing and researching on Marx sublates Hegel's theory of civil society and deeply reveals their contemporary significance.The paper researched from three parts as the form of Hegel's civil society theory, Marx criticized and reshaped Hegel's theory and the modern significance of Marx's civil society theory.First of all, the thesis simply introduced the theory source and background about Hegel's civil society, and explores the origin of Hegel's theory of civil society from the angle of the relationship between the state and civil society. The thesis draws a conclusion that the theory of civil society had pass through two phases before Hegel's: classical civil society theory and contemporary civil society theory. These two kinds of theories offered the basis to Hegel's study of state and civil society. For these elements, the thesis focuses on the further analyzing and studying of Hegel's fundamental theory. Hegel made a distinction between civil society and the politic state, put forward the accurate concept of "civil society". He founded the integral and systematic modern civil society. Hegel believed that the state is superior to civil society, and the latter relied on the former in essence. Hence, Hegel founded the basic theory of "the state superior to civil society ".Part two: Here is mainly introduced Marx how to criticize and exceed Hegel's theory. Hegel's theory far-reaching impacts Marx's thought about Historical Materialism, which constituted the starting point of Marx's studying about the relationship between civil society and the state. But Hegel's theory had many inevitably defects because he inspected civil society in ethic instead of realistic way. So,Marx inherited and shaped the theory again, he described the concept of the civil society and the relations between civil society and state scientifically, and he drew a conclusion that which is opposite to Hegel's, it is that the civil society determined the state. Marx realized the great transformation to Historical Materialism from this conclusion.Part three: this part mainly discusses the influence of Marx's theory to modern society and its guidance significant to our country. We should analyze the Hegel's theory in the opinion from Marx's Historical Materialism point, in order to handle the relationship between the state and society correctly, to promote the system reform of our government and to explore the enlightenment of building harmonious society.