An Analysis of Lukacs' Idea of Totality

How to adhere to the critical nature of Marxist theories by defining and advocating its philosophical nature? This question has functioned as a motive that pushes the development and evolution of contemporary Marxist theories abroad.And this is exactly how the basic theoretical tendency of the so-called is formed.That is,interpreting and perfecting Marxist philosophical methodology and its historical dialectics by referring to the idea of totality.It is just because Lukacs is the initiator of this theoretical trend that he is considered the originator of western Marxism.The paper holds that Lukacs' totality idea has deepened the philosophical dimension of Marxism and reinforced Marxist principle of subjectivity,which aroused the subsequent controversies over Marxist totality idea.In a sense,Lukacs' totality idea is not only the major theoretical source of western Marxism,but it is also an important theoretical source of contemporary development of Marxism.