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In The Dialectic of Duration Gaston Bachelard addresses the nature
of time in response to the writings of his great contemporary,
Henri Bergson. The work is motivated by a refutation of Bergson's
notion of duration - 'lived time', experienced as continuous. For
Bachelard, experienced time is irreducibly fractured and
interrupted, as indeed are material events. At stake is an entire
conception of the physical world, an entire approach to the
philosophy of science. It was in this work that Bachelard first
marshalled all the components of his visionary philosophy of
science, with its steady insistence on the human context and subtle
encompassing of the irrational within the rational. The Dialectic
of Duration reaches far beyond local arguments over the nature of
the physical world to gesture toward the building of an entirely
new form of philosophy.
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The Dialectic of Duration (Hardcover)
Gaston Bachelard; Translated by Mary McAllester Jones; Introduction by Cristina Chimisso
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In The Dialectic of Duration Gaston Bachelard addresses the nature
of time in response to the writings of his great contemporary,
Henri Bergson. The work is motivated by a refutation of Bergson's
notion of duration - 'lived time', experienced as continuous. For
Bachelard, experienced time is irreducibly fractured and
interrupted, as indeed are material events. At stake is an entire
conception of the physical world, an entire approach to the
philosophy of science. It was in this work that Bachelard first
marshalled all the components of his visionary philosophy of
science, with its steady insistence on the human context and subtle
encompassing of the irrational within the rational. The Dialectic
of Duration reaches far beyond local arguments over the nature of
the physical world to gesture toward the building of an entirely
new form of philosophy.
A beloved multidisciplinary treatise comes to Penguin Classics
Rare is the work of philosophy that invites both the casual reader
and the academic. Rare, too, is the text so universal that
luminaries across an array of fields lay claim to it. Yet, that is
precisely the case with Gaston Bachelard's "The Poetics of Space."
A rumination on the spaces we inhabit and the dreams and memories
that fill them, this seminal work continues to be studied and
enjoyed by philosophers, architects, writers, and literary
theorists alike.
This new edition features a foreword by Mark Z. Danielewski, whose
bestselling novel "House of Leaves" drew inspiration from
Bachelard's writings, and an introduction by internationally
renowned philosopher Richard Kearney who explains the book's
enduring importance and its role within Bachelard's remarkable
career.
"This book further-cements his thematic contention that the
imagination is a flame, the flame of the psyche." - Joanne Stroud.
Chapters include "Poetic Images of the Flame in Plant Life," ''The
Solitude of the Candle Dreamer," and "The Light of the Lamp." 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.
" Bachelard] is neither a self-confessed and tortured atheist like
Satre, nor, like Chardin, a heretic combining a belief in God with
a proficiency in modern science. But, within the French context, he
is almost as important as they are because he has a
pseudo-religious force, without taking a stand on religion. To
define him as briefly as possible - he is a philosopher, with a
professional training in the sciences, who devoted most of the
second phase of his career to promoting that aspect of human nature
which often seems most inimical to science: the poetic imagination
..." - J.G. Weightman, "The New York Times Review of Books"
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.
The famous French scientist-psychologist-literary critic provides a
virtual bestiary for depth psychology and literary criticism in his
study of Isidore Ducasse, known by the pen-name Lautreamont.
Includes essays by James Hillman "Bachelard's Lautreamont, or
Psychoanalysis without a Patient," and Robert Scott Dupree,
"Bachelard as Literary Critic." Bachelard's only book devoted to a
single author/poet. 152 pages, indexed. 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.
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.
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