An Analysis Of Historical Evolution Of Georg Lukacs’ Reification Theory

The concept of alienation has a long history, is an important theory category inthe history of Western thought, into the modernization process of alienation hasbecome an unavoidable reality. Different era gave birth to attention, thinking of thealienation of the great thinkers of different. Marx pioneered the labor theory ofalienation, launched an in-depth critique of alienation in the society, opened a"mystery of history". Lukacs Marx, founder of Western Marxist stand in theforefront of the times, the thinking of the alienation problem focused on the theoryof reification in. Lukacs Materialization Theory in1923published "history and classconsciousness" was first put forward, he did not see Marx in1932published"economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of1844", he will be alienation expressedas materialized, until the late Luca wizards will materialized, alienation, object apart.Analysis, critique of Lukacs devoted her life to further alienation, continue to seekthe way to overcome the alienation. To overcome the alienation of human society hasexperienced from the "history" the main area of the proletariat awareness to explorethe existing labor based society in the daily life, ideology, category and the point ofview of human nature science, human individuality to the development of acomprehensive. Lukacs put forward the theory of reification era is different fromMarx, alienation is overcome by social revolution, political emancipation is outdated,the expanding scope of alienation, not only relates to human activity has affected thepolitics and ideology, to the depths of the human mind, therefore, the alienation ofthe solution needs to come from the spirit of liberation. In the premise part works ofLukacs only read Marx "Das Kapital", published by Marx, will be hidden in theeconomics analysis of historical philosophy critique logic excavated from thecultural level, and expand the Marx doctrine. Lukacs Materialization Theory is combined with the characteristics of the time, the Marx doctrine, the newinterpretation of the deep. Nowadays, with the development of the times, thealienation problem presents new characteristics, how to better solve the problem ofalienation, let people more dignified life, historical logic of theory developmentin-depth study of Lukacs’s evolution provides a new dimension to our understandingof alienation in the process of modernization, the development of the Marx doctrinealso provides for us, the important reference value to understand the nature ofmodern society.This paper is divided into four parts.The first part elaborates Lukacs began to seriously study the works of Marx, histheory of alienation has begun to take shape, but this stage of his thought is mainlyconcentrated in the field of literature, with a strong romantic color, therefore,although he has a high degree of social responsibility, theoretical accomplishmentsensitive, but did not find the breakthrough point of true criticism of alienation.The second part with the development and maturity of the thought, Lukacs hasa new thinking of alienation, from literature to the field of philosophy. Lukacs drewinspiration from Marx’s commodity fetishism, the criticism to the modern capitalistsociety transformation phenomenon in commodities as a starting point. In the"history and class consciousness", he will be alienated as "materialized", uniformalong the Commodity Fetishism--materialized--materialization consciousness--General--subjectivity and objectivity--the proletariat and its consciousness of thisclue criticized the materialized and overcome. Reification of the progressive side butalso the limitations. No difference between the object, alienation and reification,leading to overcome the materialized approach relying solely on speculative range ofproletarian consciousness, lack of material basis.The third part Lukacs in the serious study of Marx’s "economic andPhilosophical Manuscripts of1844" and other works, later published "ontology" onsocial existence, will be materialized, object, alienation of distinction, consciouslythrough Marx’s philosophical materialism routes, established a labor based socialexistence. Theory of ontology, to find the real Ontology--social existence is the sublation of alienation, explore science from daily life, ideology, category and thehuman point of view, the way of sublating the alienation, and extension of the Marxdoctrine about the alienation theory from the angle of culture.The fourth part discusses Lukacs as the founder of Western Marx’s characterfrom the overall, the tendency of maturity and perfection of thought about the valueand impact. Mainly launches from the re understanding of Marxist philosophy, Marxon the western Marx’s creation, understanding of modern social essence to deepenthe value and the significance of social view firmly established modern Chinahumanism value four aspects...