Study Of Bloch's Utopian Thought And The Practical Significance

Ernst Bloch is an important Western Marxism philosopher in twentieth Century.Since he published his Spirit of Utopia and put forward the utopian thought in 1918,utopian philosophy became the studies focus which he dedicated the whole life.Bloch's utopian thought is an open futurology which is unique and irreplaceable,and it still has a great practical significance for our realistic society because it is a kind of philosophy that can lead us beyond the reality,out of the darkness and look forward to the future.On the basis of his own life experience,Bloch produced the utopian thought in the direct background of the World War ? and the crisis of European civilization.Influence by modern rationalism,existentialism,religious philosophy and the Marx doctrine,his thought looks a little messy,while it doesn't mean that Bloch simply mingled these ideas together,and actually he set a fundamental theme for realizing the liberation and salvation of human-being based on widely learning others' theories.The keynote of his utopian thought is to awake the inner utopia spirit inside people's mind and it deem man as the subject of Utopia."Not" category is the essence of the theory,and it holds the opinion that the existing people and the world are not fixed and rigid,but not existence and not realization which are ongoing of existing and containing infinite possibilities.Therefore,formatting the inner mind and finding the truth of existence of human-beings is the urgent concern of Bloch's utopian thought,and he advocated that mam should get self-cognition and achieve self-confrontation by art and love.In order to translate internal into external,arouse people's spirit of Utopia and awake the dimension of transcendence of human existence through realistic revolution.The essence of Bloch's utopian thought lies in thetranscendence,and the transcendence of human existence is reflected the transcendence about existing,death and the end of history during the process of we pursuing the future.The final analysis shows that the utopian thought has a feature of humanism,criticism,transcendence and mysticism.Though,to some degree,Bloch's utopian thought has its certain limitation,it has the indelible practical significance as well.The theory has an influence of Frankfurt school's utopian thought,and through it not only can we further grasp the fundamental characteristics of Marxism and highlight the transcendence dimension of communism theory,but we can get reference lessons in our real life.It urged us not to fall into the extravagance of the real life and always keep the attitude of criticism and transcendence.For the existence of man and human intervention and transformation of the world could be used to It can also inspire people to enhance the consciousness of history through the inquiring of the existence of human-beings and the emphasizing of man's remold about the world.Simultaneously,it can help us get a better understanding about Chinese dream.