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Criticism Of Modern Cynicism Under Marx’s Criticism Of Modernity

Posted on:2023-11-02Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:P F WangFull Text:PDF
GTID:2555307043491964Subject:Marxist philosophy
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There are two great men of the era gave the most representative diagnosis of modernity.Modern cynicism deeply embodies the characteristics of the lofty and sacred deconstruction of modernity.Karl Marx have wrote that everything solid is gone in a book of the Communist Manifesto.And Max Weber have claim that it is a era of rationalization and intellectualization,especially the charm of the world will disappear;the destiny of our epoch is all the ultimate and lofty values,hidden from social life,or into a mystery beyond the world,or a direct relationship between individuals.This study analyzes the specific concept,generative reasons and practical performance of modern cynicism with the background of modernity.And put cynicism rationality in the rational dimension of modernity,and then to reflect on modernity.The analysis of modern cynicism under the dual perspectives of Marx’s political economy criticism and metaphysical criticism.according to the this logic,there is another logical clue to the argument that modern cynicism is the incomplete surrender of the subject to surrender.Therefore,surrender is the reason of incomplete surrender,it can alleviate the survival dilemma and the path of capital modernity.Modern cynicism has deviated from the ancient cynicism despise worldly fame and wealth.In other word,modern cynicism is far from reaching the depth and level of nihilism,but it presents the practical characteristics of nihilism on the surface.In fact,the pathological root cause of modern cynicism lies in nihilism.modern cynicism originated in the modern spacetime field.Although Marx have did not directly claim that the concept of "modernity",but Marx indirectly and deeply criticized modernity through the analysis of commodity society.Modernity is the soil of modern cynicism,but modern cynicism is postmodern as modernity.The time and space for non-commercialization in the living world gradually decrease when the subjectivity is no longer towering.Therefore,people gradually become tools and resources.The subject chose modern cynicism as a rebellion to the modernity of capital.In the currency,the capital has further completed the commercialization and bureaucracies of people’ s living space with the rapid development of modernity and the extensive advancement of modernization.In modern science and technology,modern bureaucratic organization form,bureaucracy,modern culture industry and modern capitalism as well as grow in the modern capitalism elements of combining environment gave rise to the subject to capital modernity not completely surrender,subject to irony,worldly,decadent and addiction to self-destruction to resist capital modernity.Because the tolerance of modernity for post modernity is an important source of legitimacy for the existence of modernity.It is possible for the subject to choose the modern cynicism lifestyle.The depth of Marxism’s criticism of modern cynicism lies in the deep criticism of cynicism.therefore,reason is an important dimension of modernity and enlightenment reason is the ideological core of the capitalist world.The rational dimension of modernity is reflected in the process of rationality turning from object to subject,and also reflected in the process of value rationality turning to purposeful rationality.After breaking down the superstition of nature and God,there is no longer a universality as a measure of behavior,and individuals fall into separation and conflict.In other word,human beings need utopia beyond meaning to help alleviate real suffering,and rational silence causes the subject to slide into the abyss of irrationality.Therefore,modern cynicism is the phobia of the subject shivering in front of the object when enlightenment reverses.Cynicism abandons the broader future choice to tightly grasp all the present that can be grasped,even if self-destruction and dwarfing when the lofty and sacred beauty is broken.Thus,Marx’s criticism of cynicism is not an abstract humanitarian transcendence,but directly refers to the existence basis of modern cynicism of —— capital modernity.Marx’s criticism of modernity is the dual perspective of political economy criticism and metaphysics criticism,which are indispensable.Marx’s criticism of modern cynicism is not purely abstract humanitarian criticism and it is not lack of humanistic temperature.Marx’s criticism of modern cynicism is based on the criticism of capital and focusing on the historical scale without losing the moral scale.There are only under the double critical perspective can we seek the solution to the dilemma of modern cynicism and explore the way to transcend the modernity of capital.As one of the top 10 buzzwords of 2021,"lying flat" is the latest form of modern cynicism.The subject’s choice to lie flat further reflects the short-sighted and blind rationality of cynicism.Under the modernity of capital,the subject is doomed to be unable to lie flat or lie flat forever.Therefore,science and technology are still developing,and countless individuals slide their fingers in front of the shiny screen and individuals enjoy unprecedented physical enjoyment and addiction through the Internet.In this process,the data produced by people form the external subject that knows themselves more than themselves.How to solve the relationship between the external subject and the subject and understand the subject itself becomes the way out and goal to crack the electronic cynicism.Modern cynics believe that themselves as middle-class people holding some of the means of production,but they do not clarify the potential state of extreme poverty.modern cynicism separates the mutual promotion of "individual" and "class",hopes that the "individual" is towering and actively castrate the subjectivity and desires the coming of utopia and bowing to the reality,which needs the significance but cannot believe it.To solve the cynicism dilemma under capital modernity,any strategy limited to capital modernity cannot succeed.The transcendence of capital modernity and the overcoming of modern cynicism are the same road.The only achievable utopian —— capital criticism and its transcendence development direction,and in the progress dimension that the subject can experience,can the cynicism dilemma be slightly alleviated.Marx’s theory of man is the theory of comprehensive and free development of individuals.The completion of the Enlightenment is the only one can the communist society realize the real body to rise or return.In the face of the cynicism dilemma,we must complete the transcendence of the capital modernity on the road of continuing to develop the modernity,and overcome the modern cynicism on the road of realizing the socialist modernity.The communist society where the individual develops fully and freely is the only solution,will have the freedom to become Diogenes.
Keywords/Search Tags:modern cynicism, critique of modernity, subjectivity, Marxism
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