Philosophical Research On The Cultural Soft Power

Together with the accelaration of the process of economic globalization,the status and influence of culture promote and strengthen continuously in the comprehensive national strength.This means that the comprehensive national strength of one country manifests itself not only in the political and economic field,but also in the cultural fields.Cutural soft power is evolving as the state’s development strategy.On the Report to the Seventeenth National Congress of the Communist Party of China,Hu Jintao said,"In the present era,culture has become a more and more important source of national cohesion and creativity and a factor of growing significance in the competition in overall national strength,and the Chinese people have an increasingly ardent desire for a richer cultural life.We must keep to the orientation of advanced socialist culture,bring about a new upsurge in socialist cultural development,stimulate the cultural creativity of the whole nation,and enhance culture as part of the soft power of our country to better guarantee the people’s basic cultural rights and interests,enrich the cultural life in Chinese society and inspire the enthusiasm of the people for progress.’"Soft power"derives from the system info of Western Power Theory featured the hegemonism and power politics and served the interests of the hegemony.In the theory,the research for the cultural soft power help assimilate Western scholarship’s Theories critically and make up the system info of cultural soft power with Chinese characteristics.Moreover,this research help always uphold the basic tenets of Marxism and enrich the theoritical arsenal of Marxism,and then initiate a new situation,new stage and new field as well,of research for the theoretical system of socialism with Chinese characteristics.In the practice, the research for the cultural soft power help promote the development among the politics,economy,society and culture comprehensively and compatibly and promote vigorous development and prosperity of socialist culture,and then raise the standards in this field and enhance comprehensive national strength and international competitiveness.Moreover,this research help apply the Scientific Outlook on Development thoroughly and lead to the full scale development of man himself and the comprehensive progress of human society,and then boost Constructing the Harmonious Society.In the categorical theory of cultural soft power.this dissertation elaborates the dual characters that culture has in the process of knowing and reshaping nature.human beings and society through taking the culture used in a broad and a narrow sense as the base.This dissertation combines its theory with the Western soft power theory and initiates originality of the research in the categorical analysis of the cultural soft power.In the generative theory of cultural soft power,this dissertation initiates that the method of historical and logic unification is the basis of researching the cultural soft power in the conception of history and methodology.Through elaborating the dialectical relationship among human practice,historical existence and cultural generation,this dissertation illustrates the role and function of material and mental production in promoting the generation of the cultural soft power.