Sinicized Phenomenological Marxism: Reception of Western Ideas and Search for Own Theoretical Approaches

The article examines the main aspects of Sinicized phenomenological Marxism, which was formed as a result of the reception by Chinese scholars of the ideas of one of the most important directions of Western philosophy of the 20th century. The paper analyzes the phenomenological method of going beyond the binary opposition to traditional philosophy in the context of determining the modern meaning of Sinicized Marxism (Zhang Xianglong, Du Xiaozhen, Huang Yingquan, Li Huibin, Ni Liangkang, Luo Keting, Deng Xiaomang, Zhang Yibing, Han Qingxiang, Zou Shipeng, Wu Meng, Ma Yinghui). The author emphasizes the use of phenomenological criticism to overcome the naіveté of naturalism in Sinicized Marxism (Li Peng). It is provided a comparison analysis between K. Marx’s historical materialism and E. Husserl’s genetic phenomenology in the works of Sinicized Marxist philosophers (Zhang Yibing, Deng Xiaomang, Pan Jiantun, Yang Geng). The author defines an important direction in the search for a theoretical synthesis of Sinicized Marxism with certain Western philosophical concepts, which is – a combination of the reasonable transformation of the world by K. Marx and the “lifeworld” of E. Husserl (Deng Xiaomang, Wang Defeng, Yu Wujin, Yan Mengwei, Deng Bojun, Tan Peiwen). The paper also points to the transformation of aesthetic issues in Sinicized phenomenological Marxism (Deng Xiaomang). The article identifies some results and trends in the development of Sinicized phenomenological Marxism, in which it highlights five aspects: 1) the contemporary dialogue between phenomenology and Marxism; 2) a comparative study of the ideas of K. Marx and M. Heidegger; 3) the internal connection between the ideas of K. Marx and E. Husserl, as well as the possibility of their integration; 4) the Frankfurt School and phenomenology; 5) the latest trends in the study of Marxism and phenomenology. It is noted that the ideas of phenomenological Marxism were not only fully comprehended by Chinese Marxist philosophers, but also incorporated into Sinicized Marxism. Among many Chinese Marxist philosophers, there is a dominant opinion that the phenomenological approach can be reoriented in such a way that it departs from the philosophical framework of E. Husserl’s a priori idealism and develops in a materialist direction, complementing the materialist dialectic in a certain way.