Name: air and dreams: an essay on the imagination of movement
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Author: Gaston Bachelard
ISBN: 9780911005134

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air and dreams: an essay on the imagination of movement

Type

Physical Book

Author

Gaston Bachelard

Translated by

Edith And Frederick Farrell

Publisher

Dallas Institute Publications

Language

English

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

22.9 x 15.2 x 1.7 cm

Weight

0.42 kg.

ISBN13

9780911005134

Synopsis "air and dreams: an essay on the imagination of movement"

Air and Dreams: An Essay on the Imagination of Movement - by Gaston Bachelard Trans. Edith and Frederick Farrell. Bachelard uses his extensive knowledge of the poetry of Poe, Blake, Shelley, and Nietzsche to amplify the images of the airy elements. THE BACHELARD TRANSLATIONS are the inspiration of Joanne H. Stroud, Director of Publications for The Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture, who in 1981 contracted with Jose Corti to publish in English the untranslated works of Bachelard on the imagination. Gaston Bachelard is acclaimed as one of the most significant modern French thinkers. From 1929 to 1962 he authored twenty-three books addressing his dual concerns, the philosophy of science and the analysis of the imagination of matter. The influence of his thought can be felt in all disciplines of the humanities - art, architecture, literature, language, poetics, philosophy, and depth psychology. His teaching career included posts at the College de Bar-sur-Aube, the University of Dijon, and from 1940 to 1962 the chair of history and philosophy of science at the Sorbonne. One of the amphitheaters of the Sorbonne is called "L'Amphi Gaston Bachelard," an honor Bachelard shared with Descartes and Richelieu. He received the Grand Prix National Lettres in 1961-one of only three philosophers ever to have achieved this honor. The influence of his thought can be felt in all disciplines of the humanities-art, architecture, literature, poetics, psychology, philosophy, and language."

Gaston Bachelard

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Philosopher, epistemologist, poet, physicist, professor, and literary critic is in a certain sense an unclassifiable author. He was interested in the history of modern or contemporary science, and at the same time in literary imagination, to which he dedicated parallel attention. He earned his doctorate at the Sorbonne in 1927. Between 1930 and 1940, he was a philosophy professor at the Faculty of Letters in Dijon, and later, between 1940 and 1954, he was a professor of history and philosophy of sciences at the Sorbonne, succeeding Abel Rey. In the literary-critical part of his work, Bachelard will focus on deepening the problem of poetic imagination. His studies on the psychology of the elements - water, air, earth - in relation to literature are now classics: Psychoanalysis of Fire (1938), Water and Dreams (1942), Air and Dreams (1943), Earth and Reveries of Will (1948) The Poetics of Space (1957), and The Poetics of Reverie (1960). Bachelard's influence has been evident in later thinkers who have addressed the same theme. He was also read by Barthes or Starobinski, and figures like Georges Canguilhem and Michel Foucault have acknowledged his importance in the epistemological field. Other works: The Formation of the Scientific Spirit (1938), Rational Materialism (1953), The Intuition of the Instant (1973), The Philosophy of the "No": An Essay on a Philosophy of the New Scientific Spirit (2003)

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