The Aesthetic Ideology of Post-Marxism

Abstract

Abstract: This paper aims to analyze the philosophical basis, theoretical connotation and theoretical characteristics of the theory of post-Marxist aesthetic ideology. The influential theory about aesthetic ideology in China belongs to the "problematic" of traditional Marxism, but the contemporary Western aesthetic ideology belongs to the 'problematic' of post-Marxism. The former is based on historical materialism, and the latter on cultural materialism and language constructivism. From the perspective of post-Marxism, aesthetic ideology no longer stays at the ‘metaphysical’ linguistic, cultural and symbolic levels; it is integrated with "physical" material systems and social reality and becomes parasitic within the institutions, thus having material support and practical effects. Compared with traditional Marxism, post-Marxism ignores the aesthetic function of aesthetic ideology, but emphasizes its social function, namely, the function of political interference, cultural governance and social distinctions. The philosophical foundation for the theory of post-Marxist aesthetic ideology has the risks of diverging from historical materialism, but it conveys the significance and necessity of constructing the theory of 'aesthetic ideology of everyday life'.

Key words: aesthetic ideology, post-Marxism, "institutions"

Fan Yongkang, Liu Fengjie. The Aesthetic Ideology of Post-Marxism[J]. Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art, 2017, 37(1): 134-142.

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