The Transformation From Culture Postmodernism To Geography Postmodernism

Postmodernism, as a cultural ideological trend in the 1970s, is marked by its rapid spread in all realms of society, arousing our extensive attention. However, postmodernism, a controversial topic can not move toward unified conclusion, whose significance fails to come to consensus. Many Western scholars are involved in post-modern criticism and debate and put forward their own views and theories. A representative of the British neo-Marxist, David Harvey has a kind of Postmodernism Theory different from that of other post-modernist thinkers. Through the analysis of postmodernism culture and post-modern views from other scholars, Harvey describes postmodernism from the cultural perspective, which he thinks, nevertheless, is not detailed and complete enough. So he turned from the culture postmodernism to geography postmodernism. Expanded from Marxist ideology, his theory puts the concept of space into historical materialism and the broader framework of critical theory. From the perspective of geography combined with the Marxist political economy, he analyzes the root causes of postmodernism by way of the concept of space.The paper mainly deals with the reasons why David Harvey looks upon postmodernism from a cultural perspective to geographical perspective, analyzing how he looks upon postmodernism from the perspective of space by way of geography, thus deepening and widening the research on different perspectives of postmodernism. In addition, the paper discusses how David Harvey analyzes and explores post-modern phenomenon from the perspective of the changes of time and space. What's more, he talks about how he introduces the concept of space to Marxist theoretical framework, taking Marxist political economy and geography into consideration, focusing on the current cultural changes, from the social and spatial aspects of geography, putting forward geographical materialist explanations of postmodernism. Based on the analysis of basic ideas of David Harvey's geography postmodernism, exploring its position in Western society and its realistic significance on the western society, this paper falls into three parts in terms of the study of his postmodernism theory.The first part explains the shift of Harvey's cultural postmodernism to geography postmodernism, focusing on the reasons why Harvey does so, probing into the root causes of his shift to geography postmodernism.The second part explains Harvey's basic ideas of space economic production, time and space compression, post-modern historical and geographical dimensions and geographical and historical materialism of geography postmodernism.The third part discusses the position of Harvey's geography postmodernism in the West world, analyzing the process of the introduction of Marxism to modern geography, promoting the development of geography with Marxism, post-modernizing Marxist geography as well as revealing the economic basis and relations of production behind the social space of postmodernism by means of Marxist geography. Finally the paper ends up with an analysis of the realistic significance of Harvey's geography postmodernism on social development.