Marcuse’s Theory Of Alienation And Its Enlightenment On The Construction Of A Harmonious Society In Our Country

As an important representative of the Western Marxism of Marx, Marcuse inherits and develops Marx’s theory of alienation. He makes alienation as the core, takes a profound critique of the capitalist society’s overall alienation phenomenon, reveals the truth that with the rapid development of technology and the growing of material wealth, human freedom, dignity is distorted and trample at the same time. In his view, the alienation phenomenon in twentieth century, compared with nineteenth century, has been significantly different; the alienation phenomenon modern people face has been deep into all aspects of society, showing the overall characteristics.Marcuse’s alienation theory has experienced a very long process of formation and development. His early theory was influenced by Heidegger and Marx, he tried to mix the Existentialism and the Marx doctrine. Then he saw the contact with Marx and Hegel, and he tried to reveal the Hegel philosophical roots of Marx doctrine. After the end of World War II, when saw the helpless of rationalism to solve social problems, he began to establish his own theoretical system, modified the Marx doctrine with the Freud doctrine and put forward the famous liberation of Eros and single people thought. In his later years, he shifted the eyes to the aesthetics and tried to seek ways to solve the alienation from the art aesthetic.Marcuse’s alienation theory can be divided into three aspects, namely the external performance of alienation, the root of alienation and the approach of sublate alienation. In his view, technical rationality is the source of social alienation. The alienation phenomenon is not only in man and nature, but also in man and society, man and itself. Therefore, to overcome alienation and realize a harmonious society, we must make the fields of ecology, politics, economy, culture at once and conduct a comprehensive, overall reform of capitalism.Marcuse who spent his whole life in the reality of social concern, has strong color revolution. On the one hand, his theory of alienation highlight the humanistic concerns, from every side of look at the unfortunate people in the developed capitalist society; on the other hand, because of lacking the basis of historical materialism, his theory of alienation has an narrow understanding of technology and utopia color revolution road, which also inevitably has the theoretical limitations. Marcuse’s theory of alienation has enlightened an important significance on the construction of a harmonious society in china. With the western developed industrial society, in the process of promoting the development of the productive forces and the construction of a harmonious society, our country inevitably appeared alienation, which greatly hindered the construction of harmonious society. Therefore, the research of Marcuse’s alienation theory can not only deepen our understanding of Marcuse’s thought, enrich our understanding of the alienation, but also reminds us that we must fully coordinate the relationship between man and nature, adhere to the versatility of the society and the most important thing is to uphold the "people-oriented", in order to promote the comprehensive development of man.