Marxism and Contemporary Western Social Thought

Author: Zhang Zhicong
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Publish Date: 2003-07-01
Features: This book is a public course textbook specifically written for graduate students in humanities. It objectively evaluates the scientific materialism, dialectical materialism, historical practice theory, theory of alienation, and doctrine of social liberation of classical Marxism from the perspective of dialectical materialism and the continuous development and evolution of scientific theories. It comprehensively outlines the five major schools of Western Marxism, namely, empirical Marxism, Hegelian Marxism, critical Marxism, experimental Marxism, and postmodern Marxism. At the same time, it dialectically presents several major Western philosophical theories and social trends, including: new and old positivism, pragmatism, humanism and existentialism, Wittgenstein's linguistic philosophy, Heidegger's "self-world" and phenomenological methodology, Popper's naive falsificationism, Kuhn's authoritarianism, Feyerabend's irrationalism, Althusser's structuralism, Derrida's deconstructive structuralism, Foucault's post-structuralism, modern liberalism, postmodernism, postmodern science and technology, postmodern art, postmodern religion, postcolonialism, the third way, post-socialism, new global ethics, and non-mainstream schools of economics, all of which are theoretically valuable and practically significant. All of these contents serve one purpose: to broaden the knowledge horizons of Ph.D. students, inspire their wisdom, and cultivate their theoretical innovation in analyzing and solving problems.