Summary
Edward W. Soja: Postmodern Geographies
Reaffirmation of Space in Critical Social Theory
The book Postmodern Geographies marks a turning point in the affirmation of the modern concept of space. This study summarizes the spatial turn in modern thought, a turn that marks the end of the theoretical primacy of history over geography, time over space. The book establishes a "spatial paradigm" that works in the form of interpretive "human geography", that is, as a critical hermeneutic of the "social production of space". The book advanced our understanding of contemporary Human Geography, Urbanism, Architecture and Art. The idea of a postmodern, heterogeneous space helped humanist discourse relieve the medieval conception of space as a "hierarchized set of places" and the modern vision of space as a "comprehensive, centralized multitude".
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