Appearing in English for the first time, "Intuition of the
Instant"--Bachelard's first metaphysical meditation on time and its
moral implications--was written in 1932 in the wake of Husserl's
lectures on streaming time-consciousness, Heidegger's "Being and
Time, " and Henri Bergson's philosophy of the elan vital. A
culmination of Bachelard's earlier studies in scientific
epistemology, this work builds the epistemic framework that would
lead theorists of all stripes to advance knowledge by breaking with
accepted modes of thought. "Intuition of the Instant "sows the
seeds of Bachelard's future poetics, most notably in the essay
"Poetic Instant and Metaphysical Instant" (1939)--included in this
volume, along with an excerpt from Jean Lescure's lecture
"Introduction to Bachelard's Poetics" (1966). Eileen Rizo-Patron's
translation offers a key to Bachelard's subsequent works on
science, time, and imagination, which remain epistemological
touchstones.
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