The Poetics of Reverie: Childhood, Language, and the Cosmos - Couverture souple

Bachelard, Gaston

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0807064130 ISBN 13 : 9780807064139

Editeur : Beacon Press, 1971

Synopsis

In this, his last significant work, an admired French philosopher provides extraordinary meditations on the relations between the imagining consciousness and the world, positing the notion of reverie as its most dynamic point of reference. In his earlier book, The Poetics of Space, Bachelard considered several kinds of "praiseworthy space" conducive to the flow of poetic imagery. In Poetics of Reverie he considers the absolute origins of that imagery: language, sexuality, childhood, the Cartesian ego, and the universe. Approaching the psychology of wonder from the phenomenological viewpoint, Bachelard demonstrates the aurgentative potential of all that awareness. Thus he distinguishes what is merely a phenomenon of relaxation from the kind of reverie which "poetry puts on the right track, the track of expanding consciousness"

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À propos de l'auteur

Gaston Bachelard (1884-1963) is the author of The Poetics of Space, The Psychoanalysis of Fire, and The New Scientific Spirit

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Beacon Press
• Date d'édition: 1971
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0807064130
• ISBN 13: 9780807064139
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 228
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