GASTON BACHELARD (1884–1962)
Gaston Bachelard was one of the most influential thinkers of the twentieth century. He held degrees in physics, mathematics, and philosophy and regarded knowledge as a result of the interaction between reason and experience. Between 1929 to 1962 he wrote twenty-three books, both on science and on poetic imagination, among them, A New Scientific Spirit; The Dialectics of Duration; The Psychoanalysis of Fire; The Poetics of Reverie; The Poetics of Space; and Air and Dreams.
ON POETIC IMAGINATION AND REVERIE
Selected, translated, and introduced by COLETTE GAUDIN
Second edition 2022
Paperback original, 162 pages, $22
ISBN: 978-0-88214-959-2
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Passages from Bachelard's major works are introduced here in excerpts selected by Colette Gaudin, a professor of French literature at Dartmouth College and an authority on Bachelard.