中文摘要：

理解空间思想的演变及其与人文地理学的关系具有重要意义。从思想史角度出发，可将人文地理学空间思想的演变划分为起、承、转、合四个阶段。康德从哲学角度第一次系统地界定地理学为专门的空间科学，抬升了地理学的学科地位。赫特纳-哈特向承袭康德的空间观，将空间科学的抽象规定与方志传统的实际历史结合，把地理学研究对象归约为区域。其后，人文地理学的空间思想出现了四次重大转向，分别是空间几何学、人文空间性、激进的空间、空间的生产；它们体现了人文地理学与数学、哲学和其它社会科学的紧密关联与交叉。20世纪80年代以来兴起的后现代空间思想某种程度上契合康德空间观，但在哲学理念和侧重点上存在很大差异。由于不同空间认识论都有其价值，价值大小也难以评估，所以人文地理学学科地位与身份问题的争论已趋于淡化，这提示了人文地理空间研究可采取多重面向。哲学和其他学科在为人文地理提供依据和工具，使得人文地理学身份陷入迷离的同时也为其增添了活力和魅力，这是人文地理学面临的最大机遇与挑战。

英文摘要：

It is very important to understand the whole course of those ever-changing thought on space in hu- man geography and its influences on human geography. This article divides the course into 4 stages, that is the beginning, the continuing periods, the several important tums from World War II to the 1980s, and the last that there is some resemblance with the first stage but not alike at all. At the beginning, it is Kant that firstly, philosophically and specially defines geography as a science of space, and it upraises the position of geogra- phy in the system of science. Thereafter, Hettner-Hartshorne follows Kantian view of space. They unite this kind of abstract definition to the practical history that geography often is regards as local chronicles, and hold that the core of geography is region. Since the 1950s, spatial ideas in human geography mainly have under- gone 5 turns. Respectively, they are geometry of space, human spatiality, radical space, production of space, and postmodern space. These changes reflect frequent interaction between human geography and math, phi- losophy, and the other social sciences. There are some similar features on the view of space between the Kan- tian and the postmodern, such as emphasis on philosophy, the three-dimensional characteristics and so on. To sum up, because these different epistemologies on space are valuable, however it is very difficult to assess them; the debates on the place and identity of human geography are increasingly fade-out. That indicates there are multiple directions on research of human geography. Philosophy, the other social sciences and humanities offer the basis and tools for human geography, and they not only make the identity of human geography con- fusing but also make it more vigorous and charming. This is the greatest opportunity and challenge that hu- man geographers have to be faced.