By Gaston Bachelard
Cherished and meditated via philosophers, architects, writers, and literary theorists alike, Bachelard's lyrical, landmark paintings examines the locations during which we position our unsleeping and subconscious concepts and publications us via a circulation of cerebral meditations on poetry, artwork, and the blooming of recognition itself. homes and rooms; cellars and attics; drawers, chests and wardrobes; nests and shells; nooks and corners: no house is just too big or too small to be stuffed via our options and our reveries. With an creation by means of acclaimed thinker Richard Kearney and a foreword by way of writer Mark Z. Danielewski.
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Does not represent something, it addresses someone” (p. 109). 8. Bachelard, “Poetic Instant and Metaphysical Instant,” in Intuition of the Instant, trans. Eileen Rizo-Patron (Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 2013), pp. 58–63. 9. Bachelard, Intuition of the Instant, p. 59. On Bachelard’s critique of Bergson’s notion of time, see Jean-François Perraudin, “A Non-Bergsonian Bachelard,” in Continental Philosophy Review 41 (2008): 463–79. See also Richard Kearney, “Bachelard and the Epiphanic Instant,” in Philosophy Today (SPEP Supplement), vol.
A member of James Joyce’s Parisian literary circle, she cofounded the literary journal transition with her husband, Eugène Jolas. She died in Paris in 1987. com A Penguin Random House Company First published in the United States of America by The Orion Press, Inc. 1964 This edition with a foreword by Mark Z. Danielewski and an introduction by Richard Kearney published in Penguin Books 2014 Copyright © 1958 by Presses Universitaires de France Translation copyright © 1964 by Penguin Group (USA) LLC Foreword copyright © 2014 by Mark Z.
15 Images touch us at the deepest place of existence and remake the world again and again. Baudelaire—oft cited by Bachelard—expresses this with his notion of “correspondences” that transform vast expanses into the intensity of our inmost being. 16 They draft peace treaties between self and world. ”17 The ultimate task of a phenomenology of imagination is, Bachelard concludes, to capture images at their inception, as they begin anew. In this the phenomenologist and the poet are one, for they both know that imaginative contact with the outer world renews our inner being.