后现代主义影响下人文地理学哲学的发展

主要从文化哲学与人文地理学的关系上探讨了后现代思潮对人文地理学发展的影响.后现代思潮的出现是现代发展的客观结果,具有深刻的历史背景.其对人文地理学哲学的影响主要表现在三个方面:对科学技术和理性的反动导致非理性主义的泛滥;从结构主义到后结构主义以及把人文地理学研究当作一个文本解构、阅读和建构的过程为我们提供了新的方法论视野;非理性的人本主义的发展为解决区域问题提供了新的思路.文章最后探讨了与后现代和人文地理学哲学相关的几个问题.

From Modern to Postmodern: the Development of Human Geographical Philosophy

This paper mainly discusses the effects of postmodernism on geographical development from the relationship between cultural philosophy and human geography.The emergence of postmodernism results in modernistic development,which has deep historic background.On the one hand,the gradually intensification of contradictious between human and nature,persons and persons,person and itself causes ecological crisis and social turbulences.Human becomes technological servant that incurs subjective forfeit.Human becomes a kind of economic animal because of seeking for material consumption.On the other hand,the developments of relativity and quantum mechanics offer new train of thoughts for the arise of postmodernism.Postmodernism emerged as the times require on 70s last century.It queries and criticizes social reality and thoughtful way that bases on modernistic rationalism.It characterizes by retroaction to authority and modernism.It opposes macroscopic unification and applauds microcosmic difference.Its effects on philosophy of human geography have three aspects:(1) the contradictions to science,technology and nouns lead to non-rationalistic inundation;(2)from structuralism to post-structuralism,that taking study on human geography as a process of deconstruction,read and construction provides us with new view on methodology;(3) the non-rational humanistic development finds a new foundation for regional problems being solved.At last,several relevant problems to postmodern and human geography are discussed.