“西方马克思主义”这一概念最早是由德国著名的共产党人和革命理论家卡尔·柯尔施提出的。最初他用这一概念指称以匈牙利共产党人乔治·卢卡奇和他自己为代表的一种新的对马克思主义的诠释和理解的路径,以区别于当时被视为正统的“俄国马克思主义”。其后,法国著名的哲学家梅洛·庞蒂进一步阐发了这一概念,在《辩证法的历险》一书中,他把那些倾向于从人本主义和社会理论的角度来理解马克思主义的西方国家的马克思主义者都归属到这一思潮之下。 The concept of “Western Marxism” was first proposed by Karl Korsch, a famous German communist and revolutionary theorist. Originally, he used this concept to refer to a new path of interpretation and understanding of Marxism represented by the Hungarian communist George Lukacs and himself as distinguished from what was then regarded as orthodox “Russian Marxism ”. Later, the famous French philosopher Melo Ponti further elaborated on this concept. In his book The Adventures of Dialectics, he turned to those who tend to understand the Marxist West from the perspective of humanism and social theory The country’s Marxists belong to this trend of thought.