索亚空间本体论的产生背景、理论构建与现实意义——基于《后现代地理学》

The Background, Theoretical Construction and Practical Significance of Soja’s Spatial Ontology—Based on “Postmodern Geography”

摘要: 爱德华·索亚作为当代空间研究的领军人物，在继承和发展列斐伏尔、福柯、哈维等人的空间思想的基础上，提出了独具特色的空间批判理论。本文通过分析索亚的成名著作《后现代地理学》，梳理其空间本体论的产生背景、理论构建与现实意义。首先介绍索亚关于空间理论对历史决定论反叛的出发点和进行空间重申的努力；其次，在思考其空间、时间和社会存在之间的辩证关系中，把握其社会—空间辩证法形成的理论逻辑，阐发索亚作为社会批判理论哲学基础的空间本体论思想；最后，探究索亚以空间本体论为指导，将后现代社会批判理论实证化为一种具有鲜明地理学特色的“批判性区域研究”的实践意义。

Abstract: As a leading figure in contemporary space research, Edward Sawyer put forward a unique critical theory of space on the basis of inheriting and developing the space thoughts of Lefebvre, Foucault, Harvey and others. By analyzing Sawyer’s famous work “postmodern geography”, this paper combs the background, theoretical construction and practical significance of his spatial ontology. Firstly, it introduces Soja’s starting point of space theory’s rebellion against historical determinism and his efforts to reiterate space. Secondly, in thinking about the dialectical relationship between space, time and social existence, we grasp the theoretical logic of the formation of its social-spatial dialectics, and elucidate the spatial ontology thought of Soja as the philosophical basis of social critical theory; finally, it explores the practical significance of Sawyer’s demonstration of postmodern social critical theory as a “critical regional study” with distinctive geographical characteristics under the guidance of spatial ontology.