市民社会概念的起源、流变和社会历史基础

The Origin, Deformation and Flow of the Concept of Bourgeois Society and Its Social Historical Foundation

人们在疏于考据和实证的情况下频繁使用市民社会概念,易于引发误解。这一概念有它的起源和流变过程,这一过程以特定的社会历史变迁为基础:本真意义的市民社会变为君主集权制社会中的市民社会,再变为资本主义社会中的市民社会。不同的社会历史基础决定了市民社会概念的含义各不相同。这说明,不了解市民社会概念的起源、流变及其社会历史基础,就不能准确理解马克思主义哲学语境中的市民社会概念。

The concept of bourgeois society has been widely misused by people without sufficient textual and empirical study. Actually, the meaning of the concept, from its authentic meaning to the referring to the society under authoritarian regime, then to the society under capitalism, has experienced a process of deformation and flow, the foundation of which rests upon the development of social history. The concept of bourgeois society has different indications according to different social historical background, and this fact also has an indication to us： to understand the exact meaning of bourgeois society of Marxism, we must learn the origin and deformation and flow of the concept and its social historical foundation first.