Journal of East China Normal University (Philosophy and Social Sciences) ›› 2007, Vol. 39 ›› Issue (1): 55-62.doi: 10.16382/j.cnki.1000-5579.2007.01.010

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The Structural Art of Capital and Marx' Aesthetic Ideas

Xiao-guang LU   

  1. Department of Chinese Language &Literature, East China Normal University,Shanghai 200062,China
  • Received:2006-10-20 Online:2007-02-25 Published:2007-01-29

Abstract:

Capital can be aesthetically read, and its aesthetic implication stands out as its structural form.The structure of Capital consciously sticks to the aesthetic principle of "art integration"in its dealing with the relationship between part and whole, finding expressions not only in its narrative orientation of "from absolute to concrete", but also in its narrative technipue of "diversion-progression".The most striking structural feature of Capital lies in its logical procedures full of dialectics; its logical starting-point, categorical transition, connection among principles, and joint of several volumes, all show the law of passing from one form to another and from one connected order to another.The structure of Capital aims at expressing the subject's style as well as the objective law.What it explores is not merely a kind of economic law just as 2+2=4.Its structural form implies aesthetic elements.As an intellectual production, Capital pursues an objective of political economics in its theoretical content and puts into effect the idea of creation according to the laws of beauty in its structural form.

Key words: Capital, Marx, dialectics, structural art, aesthetic idea

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