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A Study Of Max Weber's Aesthetic Thought In Sociological Field

Posted on:2018-05-19Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:X J LiFull Text:PDF
GTID:2335330515970493Subject:Literature and art
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The nature of the material society gradually showing its alienation since the society came into a modern time.In contrast to Marx's theory of productivity and Freud's original theory,Max Weber focuses on the basis of traditional culture,according to the social logic of religious redemption.He asserts a social rationalization theory based on the value rationality.His theory has important social significance.Religious sociology,as a important thesis supports Weber' s gigantic sociological theory,has clarified the subtle relationship between culture and human' social motivation.Weber'modernity theory interpret the route of rationalization of religious secularization.According to the chance of people' active motivation from the " religious impact power" to " the economic impact power",his theory reveals the important value of traditional culture in modern cultural transformation.Similarly,put the vision into modern transformation of Chinese culture,using Cai Yuanpei and Liang Shuming 's theory as a possibility to explore the modern transformation of Chinese Confucian culture according to the sample of Weber' religion secularization theory.This paper mainly explains the basic connotation of Weber' s literary and artistic thoughts by means of text reading method,literature method and systematic research method,and explores its value and social mechanism significance in literature and art.It is composed five parts:The introduction mainly includes the research background and significance,domestic and foreign research status and innovation.The first chapter explains the essence of religion and its social significance according to Weber' s theory of religious sociology.As Weber 's understanding of the sociological structure explain the interactive relationship between God and human in redeeming meaning in the pre-modern times.The second chapter analyses the secularization of religion from Weber' s rationalitysocial construction.In the perspective of cultural religion to explore the religion as a type of culture has saved modern people' spirit,and also from the modern anti-bite in reflection of its defect as a aesthetically way.The third chapter analyzes the rationalization of the cultural religion in social transformation with the idea of "aesthetic salvation".Using the spiritual value expressed by literature and art to replace the value of religious ethics in order to keep intellectuals' mind in a aesthetic salvation way in the modern society.The fourth chapter builds the modern redemption mode of Chinese traditional culture based on Weber' s cultural research paradigm as the core of Weber' s Chinese proposition,taking Cai Yuanpei and Liang Shuming as the possibility analysis.The value and innovation of this paper lies in the fact that putting the significance of religious ethics into the modern society in order to realize a conversion of aesthetic value pursuit instead of religion moral value pursuit,the salvation of literature and art instead of the salvation of religion.It interprets the religious value' s educational significance in the modern society.Secondly,through the cultural research paradigm of Weber's thinking on the modernization of Chinese Confucianism,putting Cai Yuanpei and Liang Shuming as an example to explore the possibility of Chinese culture.Seeking the Opportunity to resuscitate Confucianism in this new time as the core idea of cultural rationalization.
Keywords/Search Tags:Max Weber, cultural religion, salvation, rationalization, modernization
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