| Raymond Williams is a famous Marxist cultural thinker in the 20 th century.He is an important figure who studies British Marxist culture,history of culture and Marxist cultural theory.The theory of cultural materialism is the most prominent research achievement in Williams’ cultural research theory,which runs through the whole cultural theory of Williams.So,to do innovative research on its cultural materialism,it helps to understand the relationship between cultural materialism and historical materialism,and the Marxist cultural view,and the innovation of the Marxist cultural theory,in the hope that it would help to build a new culture of Chinese socialism.Williams’ cultural materialism theory is not created out of thin air,but has its social roots and ideological origins.In general,William ’s cultural materialism theory is based on a critique of the British elite culture and British empiricism philosophy,and the theoretical response to the present situation of the British society after world war ii and the emergence of the new left of Britain.The main contents of Williams’ cultural materialism theory include: the unique cultural materialism paradigm,the reinterpretation of the concept of "culture",the concept of innovative emotional structure,and the thinking on the proposition of "foundation and superstructure".Williams’ theory of cultural materialism has a strong innovative,first of all,to the innovative conce pt of cultural interpretation: culture is a whole,is ordinary,is "emotional structure" as the core way of life.Secondly,in the innovation of the concept of "emotional structure",he advocates that the emotional structure is the foundation of cultural pattern and the link between culture and society.Again,in the innovative aspects of the concept of "cultural materialism",the concept of "cultural materialism" innovative reflect place culture research material conditions and material production background,see the materiality,practicality and social historical culture.Finally,Williams,on the basis of inheriting the relationship between Marx’s economic foundation and superstructure,advocated the study of cultural integration into the economic base.Through the above analysis,the cultural materialism,the article briefly analyzes the innovative Williams pointed out that embodied in the research on culture of its innovative new thinking,new definitions of historical materialism,the new development of mass culture research.But at the same time,Williams’ cultural materialism also has the limitation of overstating the cultural role and promoting the popular culture too much.Enlightens us in the new era in the process of the construction of socialist culture with Chinese characteristics must attaches great importance to the leadership in the field of culture,determined the dominant position of Marxism,mass culture for the development of positive. |
