Towards Sharing And Harmonious Popular Culture

As we all know, in today’s unprecedented, prosperity and a variety of critical discourse, cultural critique has become a hot topic of discussion and research for theorists. Terry Eagleton’s charming cultural and critical perspective and enlightening sound of theory have caused extensive attention from domestic and foreign scholars. He showed concern for the capitalist socio-cultural issues and the post-modern culture concept in the "concept of culture", the "culture wars" and the "post-modernist contradictions" and other works and papers, and put forward the solution of cultural criticism:going towards the Common Culture that should return to the culture of the original location and go back to the areas of culture rather than lose the qualities to which it belongs and show blind generalization. Eagleton’s Common Culture Concept is intended to reveal our culture can not solve any problems and the culture should go back to the ture propertites. Its profound connotation is a kind of culture which the collective practice constantly re-create, the entire public participate, rather than a few of them develope values which accepted and passively experienced by many people. It emphasizes the group’s sharing. It is the result of fully conscious cooperation of all members and it is a harmonious cultural concept. This article focuses on digging the connotation of the Eagleton’s Common Culture, expanding four aspects as follows:Firstly, in Eagleton’s entire system of cultural theory, reveal a common cultural concept’s status, the theoretical source and its positioning, point out that the Common Culture Concept is important kernel of the Eagleton’s cultural and theoretical system, and then analyze the source theory:Marxism’s exposition on the common ideal of socialism and Williams’s cultural concept, putting forwards his idea of the Common Culture Concept:to the sharing and harmonious Popular Culture.Secondly, vertically comb the theoretical sources of the Common Culture Concept and show the unique value and significance, to find out the relationship between the Common Culture Concept and his previous thinking of theory. That is summarized as these two trends:from literary theory to cultural criticism and from political criticism to the political culture, and analyze the three value dimensions of the Common Culture Concept:mass dimension, dimension of humane care and religious ethics dimension.Thirdly, focus on the Common Culture Concept in the perspective of the Popular Culture, and reflect the consistency and difference between the Common Cultural Concept in Eagleton culture research system and the Popular Culture prevalent in our country.Finally, elaborate the Popular Culture in contemporary China in the perspective of the Common Culture Concept, on the basis of comprehensive analysis of the21st century, point out that the Common Culture Concept will give us a profound reflection and cultural development proposals, and particularly point out that cultural workers should assume the construction work of cultural theory, to protect China’s national culture, shape the common ideal of society and carry forward the excellent culture of the Chinese nation.Based on researching these issues, the article focuses attention on Eagleton’s "Common Culture". In the context of present extensive discussions of cultural theory, its value will lead to our thinking and theory resonance and provide China’s current cultural construction with reality theory reference.