Space and Practice——Study on the Evolution,Limitations and Promising Future of the Western Perspective of "space"

Traditionally it is recognized that the western perspective of has being developed according to four logical clues: ontology, subject-body, scientism and cultural symbol. However, it is also noticed that most western studies on space tend to separate real space from mental space, ignoring the significance of practice on the studies of As a result, they usually fail to discover the implications of political economy hidden behind space. On the contrary, the theory of social space proposed by Marxism, which was based on practice, predicted the transformation of the research paradigm of space study. It not only broadened the territory of traditional studies on space, but also provided the sole and reasonable way to produce a united perspective of space.