Abstract:

The civil society is a fundamental issue in the modern Western social transition, and also an essential theoretical issue that contemporary China's social transition of "modernity" is confronted with.This issue is a kind of problem consciousness inviting Marx' philosophical reform, and this category is a prototype of Marx' concept of capitalism.The historical development of modern civil society provides a historical horizon for the occurrence of Marxist philosophy.Taking the study (criticism) of civil society as a basic problem consciousness in the study of Marxist philosophy can promote a transformation of the current Chinese research paradigm of Marxist philosophy and a change of its own inherent theoretical logic.

Key words: civil society, research paradigm, Marxist philosophy