The Ideological And Political Education Values Of The Constructive Postmodernism

Canadian Social Science
Vol. 6, No. 5, 2010, pp. 49-53
ISSN 1712-8056 [Print] ISSN 1923-6697[Online] www.cscanada.net www.cscanada.org
The Ideological and Political Education Values of the Constructive Postmodernism
VALEUR DE L'ÉDUCATION IDÉOLOGIQUE ET POLITIQUEL DU POSTMODERNISME CONSTRUCTIF
YU Yong-yue1 LI Jian2
Abstract: By analyzing and criticizing the modernity, the constructivepostmodernism rebuilds a postmodern worldview consistent with human beings’ spiritual needs and value pursuit, promotes human beings’ subjective spirits, and realized human beings’ subjective values. And it is just the purport of ideological and political education to highlight the significance of human beings and the value world.
Keywords: constructive postmodernism; ideological and politicaleducation value
Résumé: Le postmodernisme constructif reconstruit une vision du monde postmoderne qui correspond aux besoins spirituels et à la poursuite des valeurs de l'homme en analysant et critiquant la modernité. Il met en valeur l'esprit du sujet de l'homme et la réalisation de valeur principale de l'homme. Le centre d'intérêts de l'éducation idéologique et politique est d'apporter attention ausens de l'homme et au monde de valeurs.
Mots-clés: postmodernisme constructif; éducation idéologique et politique
1. THE CONNOTATION OF THE CONSTRUCTIVE
POSTMODERNISM
Science and rationality have become the supreme guiding ideology and judgment standard ever since the Enlightenment. Science and rationality are complementary and mutually dependent, and following science and esteeming rationalitythereby turned the fashion in modern history. The great practice of human Industrial Revolution and constantly developing technologies even highlight the tremendous force of human rationality. Rationality, as the starting-point of modernity, therefore turned the important characterization and had been broadly favored by human beings ever since. The praises and esteems placed on rationality fromhuman beings started turning into extreme as human beings gradually recognized the practical importance of rationality via their world-changing practice. The modern rationality featuring dualism and determinism started eroding every single aspect of human thoughts and practices as well, and rationality started overflowing accordingly. It is exactly like the case that things will develop in theopposite
1 PhD Supervisor. School of Political Science and Public Administration, Wuhan University, Hubei, 430072, China. 2 School of Political Science and Public Administration, Wuhan University, Hubei, 430072, China.
*Received 15 July 2010; accepted 8 September 2010
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when they become extreme. By the time human beings believe their ownpower could determine everything and even change everything, and the time that the power of human rationality unreservedly demonstrates itself in front of human beings, it is not difficult for human beings to observe the true colors of rationality, including advantages and disadvantages as well as bright side and dark side. Human beings started self-examining their own rationality, or startedthinking about the rationality featuring objectification, mechanistic philosophy, and reductionism as its worldview and methodology. In modernity rethinking, postmodernism has become the anti-modernity pioneer with its complete as well in-depth criticisms on modernity since 20th century.
However, regardless of profoundly exposing modernity’s plentiful defects, postmodernism didn’t socially gain broadsupport although it has turned into an important human ideological trend that can not be ignored; in terms of the modernity practices in human society its effect and significance even remain further probe. The reasons include postmodernism’s complexity, various theoretical sects, and plentiful viewpoints; in another aspect, maybe more important, the postmodernism, originated and developed from...