Henry Lefebvre’s Theory Of The Production Of Space And Its Critical Dimension

Henri Lefebvre is one of the most important representatives of western marxism.His theory of the production of space opens up the "spatial turn" of western marxism’s social critical research.This paper starts with the study of his theory of the production of space,analyzes the critical dimension of his theory,and considers its practical significance and enlightenment to chinese spatial governance.Lefebvre’s theory of the production of space is based on deeply analyzing the development of capitalist globalization and the process of urbanization.Unlike the traditional dualistic view of space,Lefebvre,on the premise of rejecting the traditional view of material space and spiritual space,puts forward the category of social space,focusing on the social dimension of space and emphasizing the social genus of space.The production of space embodies space productivity and contains production relations in space.With the development of productivity,natural space is gradually eliminated,and the production of space presents social attributes,which embodies the dialectical dimension of trinity.By examining the evolution process of the production of space,Lefebvre attributes the history of spatialization to six forms.On this basis,he criticizes the abstraction of the production of space in capitalist society,analyzes the functions and characteristics of the production of capitalist space,reveals the social contradictions and crises caused by the production of capitalist space,points out the negativity and destructiveness of the production of space under the control of the logic of capital multiplication,criticizes the capitalization and political tendency of space,criticizes the space fetishism in the capitalist society,and reveals the alienation of daily life and human beings themselves.Lefebvre’s criticism of the capitalist space mechanism aims at seeking a kind of space justice,and thus puts forward the socialist difference space conception.Lefebvre’s theory of the production of space is a great development of marxist theory of space,which opens up the trend of space theory research,at the same time,providesideas for socialist production of space,and provides theoretical guidance for the process of urbanization and modernization in our country.