关键词: 文化批判理论, 范式转换, 文化马克思主义

Abstract: Cultural Marxism, formed in the middle of the 20th century, regards cultural criticism as a critique of the reality of capitalist society, expands the scope of cultural criticism from literary texts to a wider range of real society, and embodies the distinctive characteristics of paradigm shift: the cultural criticism of “a whole way of life” is initiated by the paradigm of “culturalism”; the cultural criticism of “multiple determinism” is formed by the paradigm of “structuralism”; and the cultural criticism of “symbolizing objects” is realized by the paradigm of “structuralculturalism”. Through the analysis of the paradigm shift of Marxist cultural criticism, the meaning of “culture” is formed from the different perspectives of anthropology, sociology, literary theory, philosophy of language and semiotics, and the rich and complex connotation of “culture” is also explored. In the transformation of the paradigm of “structureculturalism”, the interactive relationships between “content” and “structure” and between “fact” and “form” are used to understand the tension between social structure and cultural events and achieve a path to the cultural criticism of the symbolic world of human beings.

Key words: cultural critical theory, paradigm shift, cultural Marxism