后现代空间理论的维度及其限度——读苏贾《后现代地理学》

The Dimensions and Limitations of Postmodernity Space Theory:Reviewing Edward Soja's Postmodern Geographies

在与列斐伏尔、福柯、詹明信、吉登斯等空间理论家进行对话的基础上,苏贾的后现代空间理论重申了批判社会理论中的空间。社会、权力、后现代性和时间等既是后现代空间理论的分析维度,也是空间理论的经验实践。虽然后现代空间理论还存在一定的局限性,但这并不影响批判社会理论的空间构型的价值和意义。当前空间理论正朝着一个拥有多个分析维度、具有鲜明反思性和批判性的综合理论体系的方向而建构,并试图发展出一个经验型和阐释性意义上的批判社会理论体系。

On the basis of the conversation with space theorists, such as Henri Lefebvre, Michel Foucault, Fredric Jameson, and Anthony Giddens, the postmodern geographies reasserted the space in critical social theory. Society, power, postmodernity and the time are not only the dimensions or perspectives of the postmodern space theory, but also the practical experiences of the space theory. Although there are some limitations of the postmodern space theory, it doesn＇t affect the value and significance of the construction of space of the critique social theory. The current space theory turns toward to a multiple analysis dimensions and a comprehensive theoretical system which with the distinctive critical and reflection,and it also tries to develop an empirical and interpretative sense of the critical social theory system.