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Hermeneutics of place and space, springer, 2017, version accepted for publication. On bachelards the poetics of space now, in introduction to nests, shells, and intimate immensity. The philosopher explores the space people inhabit as a means of analyzing the human soul. Cristina chimisso, gaston bachelard s places of the imagination and images of space, in bruce janz ed.
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Books by gaston bachelard author of the poetics of space. Three or four decades ago a book entitled the poetics of space could hardly fail to stir the architectural imagination. Both elemental notions haunt the poetics of spacethe homey existential one, and the more expansive cosmological one. Bachelard takes us on a journey, from cellar to attic, to show how our perceptions of houses and other shelters shape our. The poetics of space by gaston bachelard goodreads. Since its first publication in english in 1964, french philosopher gaston bachelards poetics of space remains one of the most appealing and lyrical explorations. His philosophical reflections succeeded in creating an utterly unique transcendental geometry of space.
He sits snugly, seemingly shoehorned into the only available space, between teetering heaps of books piled floor to ceiling, folios to slim pamphlets, the philosopher. First published in french in 1957 and translated into english in 1964, gaston bachelard s. Get an adfree experience with special benefits, and directly support reddit. The poetics of space kindle edition by bachelard, gaston. Beloved and contemplated by philosophers, architects, writers, and literary theorists alike, bachelard s lyrical, landmark work examines the places in which we place our conscious and unconscious thoughts and guides us through a stream of cerebral meditations on poetry, art, and the blooming of consciousness itself.
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French by maria jolas, with a new foreword by john r. His work has influenced intellectual titans like foucault, merleauponty, deleuze and althusser. The poetics of space is a 1958 book about architecture by the french philosopher gaston bachelard. First published in french in 1957 and translated into english in 1964, gaston bachelards philosophical meditation on oneiric space appeared at a moment when phenomenology and the pursuit of symbolic and archetypal meanings in architecture seemed to open fertile ground. To the latter he introduced the concepts of epistemological obstacle obstacle epistemologique and epistemological break rupture epistemologique. He presses our interior space outward, as if moving imaginatively from. May 17, 2017 post two of three on gaston bachelards the poetics of space if you need a refresher on phenomenology maybe read post one. Book full the poetics of space by gaston bachelard.
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