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Interpretation Of Marx’s Thoughts On Modernity And Its Contemporary Significance To China

Posted on:2014-02-17Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:Y SunFull Text:PDF
GTID:2285330452462840Subject:Marxist philosophy
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With the continuous development of social economy, a growing attention is paid tomodernity problems, and people also have launched a comprehensive study on modernity.Formed in the Renaissance, modernity have undergone the Religious Reform and theEnlightenment, and go well today. As a powerful force, modernity promotes the successfultransformation of human beings’ society from traditional agricultural society to modernindustrial one, makes the productive forces highly developed and social material wealthenriched, and triggers tremendous social change of times. Meanwhile, it also brings in theunexpected serious problems, which are left over by history, caused by the development ofour real society and urgently need to be solved. The understanding and grasp of modernity,not only is associated with the construction of a modern society, but affects the continuousprogress of modernization.Living in an era of sudden surge of modernity current, witnessing the rapid developmentof science and technology, the vast accumulation of capitalist material wealth, and all kinds ofcrisis triggered in the times current, so Marx had a comprehensive understanding of modernity,and, in fact, all the reference to or the discussing over the issues in Marx’s theory about "Capitalist Society" and "Modern Society" elaborate on modernity problems. Given all that, itseems that Marx’s thought is really the thought of modernity with modernity at the core.This thesis altogether minute following five parts: The first part mainly introduce thebasis on choosing the topic, the background, significance and method of the research andcomb the existing achievements of the modernity discussed at home and abroad; The secondpart subjectively analyze the modernity issues. Starting with the connotation of modernity,this part mine the rise and development of modernity and the problems arised during the development, until the modernity’s "rewrite" of postmodernity; The third part deeply analyzethe history of Marx’s thought on modernity. The formation of Marx’s thought, actually being aprocess of Marx’s thought on modernity, enable us to realize that Marx has an excellentinsight into modernity; The fourth part interpretate the keywords of Marx’s thought onmodernity: Capital, Alienation and Practice, which are the Marx’s prominent understanding ofmodernity; The fifth part summarize the significance of the development of our countrypromoted by Marx’s thought on modernity. Being in the critical period of building acomprehensive well-off society, China in particular need to have this theory of Marx as aguidance, which can guide the better development and progress of our country.
Keywords/Search Tags:modernity, alienation, Marx, practice
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