Abstract:
Since the late 1920's, "western Marxists" attempted to "revive" Marxist theory, which met with numerous challenges in reality, in order to establish "generality-based" "neo-Marxist" literary theory and aesthetic theory in fields of aesthetics and literary criticism. As a trend of literary theory, "western Marxists" made considerable contributions by following this conception of theirs, but they failed to make Marxist "generality" prominent enough. In fact, however, as the key concept to develop a systematic Marxist theory of literature and art, "generality" as a hidden system existed in Paris Manuscripts, in the explorative German Ideology as a strict basic category of history science, in the mature Economics Manuscripts from 1857 to 1858 and in On the Capital. In a word, "generality" in Marx's works shows triple dimensions, that is, "the ideal existence of men", "the methodology of history science" and "a global historical course" of social culture.
