A Study Of Horkheimer’s Cultural Critical Theory From The Perspective Of Historical Materialism

Hookheimer,the leader of European modern culture criticism,used cultural critical theory as a revolutionary weapon to promote social progress,and strive to save the cultural crisis and the main rational imbalance,in order to achieve social justice and justice,freedom of human liberation of the social ideal and make unremitting efforts.Based on this,in the contemporary study of Horkheimer’s cultural critical theory is conducive to the subject of rational balance and social spiritual civilization of sustainable development.The first part of the thesis reveals the efforts made by Horkheimer’s critical theory of culture to approach Marx’s historical materialism,that is,the inheritance of Marx’s historical materialism,which embodies the worldview and methodology,which is different from the academy.The second part of the thesis mainly elaborates the ideological logic of cultural critical theory.First of all,Horkheimer’s critical theory of culture is to attack the beginning of the Enlightenment,describing the core of cultural critical theory,that is,the formation of instrumental rationality and harm.As the Enlightenment in the return to the subjective rationality at the same time left the objective rationality,instead of the scientific omnipotence of the positivism as the subject and the object is valuable evaluation criteria,that is the main body is still out of the absolute authority of the cage,The Enlightenment is only the process of throwing the subject from an absolute authority to another supreme authority,so that the instrumental rationality is on the top spot of capitalist ideology,which means that the omnidirectional alienation of the capitalist society,and on this basis On the emergence of a historic crisis of civilization.Second,the theory of cultural criticism of the instrumental rational expression of the cultural industry as their own content,such as the cultural industry how to change themass culture from the public to the means of manipulating the public? People have been manipulated by the culture and what kind of real reaction? According to Horkheimer clearly restored the post-industrial era of capitalist social and cultural truth.Finally,the logical end of the theory of cultural criticism is to restore the "cultural vitality" direction,that is,to break the positivist cage and establish the main negative thinking,so that the main body in the production process to achieve real freedom and liberation.In the third part of the thesis,after describing the theory of Horkheimer’s cultural critique,as a successor of Marxism,it is very necessary for us to take a holistic view of Horkheimer’s critical theory of culture based on Marxist historical materialism.Therefore,this part begins with the importance of insisting on the historical materialism of Marxism,and analyzes the important contribution of Horkheimer’s critical theory of culture to the return of capitalist ideology while trying to return to the true sense of Marxism.And then pointed out that,while close to the Marxist historical materialism at the same time,because the Horkheimer culture critical theory and the capitalist ideology of the struggle to stop at the theoretical level,and not in real life to provide any practical program,and greatly weakened Its methodological significance.But we can not therefore put the theory of Horkheimer’s cultural critics completely outside the horizon of Marxist historical materialism,and should be comprehensive reflection and summed up in order to sum up the Marxist ideology of how to deal with the cultural industry some enlightening thinking.