Study On The Roots Of Modernity And Contradictions Of Modern Culture

Modernity has experienced profound and long-term evolution,this process involves achievements and ideas of political system, economic system, cultural and many other fields.The modern use of the term began in the Renaissance period, from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment, modernity everywhere on the scene. Europeans use the term modernity in the early 15 th century to refer to the medieval spirit of enlightenment critique after all. Tradition, modernity and unambiguously questions, denial, refutation is the modern answer clearly reflects the modernity of theme of righteousness is to dare to struggle, perseverance. It is a kind of spiritual values and the pursuit, East West Humanities Research experts in the field of the attention. Domestic and foreign scholars on this hot topic from different areas of research carried out extensive discussions and put forward complex ideas and insights, a series of theoretical results. A large part of research results are more or less related to the problems of modernity. Both 20 th century Western developed countries have seen the worst of cultural crisis, or the modernization of developing countries in the tide of globalization presented a radical cultural value conflicts, essence and destiny of modernity is the must into account objective.The background of cultural modernity, fully embodies the principle of Marxist dialectical relationship between social being and social consciousness. Traditional societies around the world in the process of transformation into a modern society, with regard to social transformation, Eastern and Western scholars consistently give it high priority. Traditional and modern scholars are the focal point of discussion on social transformation and exploration centered on how society is to evolve from traditional to modern society. Since then, scholars describe this historical process since the modern, modern, modern has become a legitimate angle. Used to represent the process of modernization, denotes the consequences of modernity. Modernization of modernity is completed, it is not only the physical and ideological, which to a great extent can be said to be a proposition, this leads to the concept of cultural modernity.On the cultural connotation of cultural modernity, first of all, scholars from different levels of cultural modernity theory conducted a lot of research and found that Weber’s instrumental reason is understood modernity the most fundamental of ways and means. Weber’s sense of instrumental rationality in modern culture expresses to science and technology and intellect with utilitarianism of this cultural form to shore up their own culture, philosophy of pursuing personal freedom, happiness influence of mass culture is greatly influenced by scientism and materialism. Affected by this, instrumental rationality and instrumental rationality inherent logical relationship between humanism and liberal values. Second, as the discourse of modernity in the global spread, modern force rising. The enlightenment and usher in a new upsurge in development of modern culture. But since then, questioning modernity’s voices gradually emerge. Root cause is that modernity contains inherent contradictions in the development process, and binary opposition fragmented modernity, created the modern existence of paradoxical.Research on modernity, both study the past, is also studying the current and future., The basic idea is that reference related to academic achievement, cultural analysis as a general idea, from a cultural point of view to explore the problems of modernity in the cultural systematic study of modernity from the perspective of historical formation of the pluralistic orientation and their contradictions and tension. Through the concept of cultural modernity, reveal the relationship between cultural development and social development in modern society and deepen the cultural study of historical materialism, which sought a cultural support, and try to draw some inspiration and reference significant conclusions. Therefore, under the guidance of Marxism, and from the angle of historical materialism theory of contemporary cultural globalization background so much deeper and more comprehensive understanding of cultural modernity.