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The Poetics of Space

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Beacon Press, 1994 - Art - 288 pages
A magical book. . . . A prism through which all worlds from literary creation to housework to aesthetics to carpentry take on enhanced-and enchanted-significances. Every reader of it will never see ordinary spaces in ordinary ways. Instead the reader will see with the soul of the eye, the glint of Gaston Bachelard. -from the foreword by John R. Stilgoe

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This book seemed so promising. The title sounds exactly in my interest area. The table of contents is this tempting list: "The House, from Cellar to Garret, The Significance of the Hut", "House and ... Read full review

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Contents

The House From Cellar to Garret The Significance of the Hut
3
House and Universe
38
Drawers Chests and Wardrobes
74
Copyright

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The Poetics of Space (Phil Gyford: Writing)
I spent much of the New Year reading The Poetics of Space by Gaston Bachelard, which had been on my reading list for a while: two friends highly recommended ...
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Blog Meridian: <em>The Poetics of Space </em>and Easter
I am slowly working my way through Gaston Bachelard's 1958 book, The Poetics of Space. The slowness is due in part to my workload and in part to the fact ...
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In a Dark Time … The Eye Begins to See » Bachelard’s The Poetics ...
I suspect Mike recommended Gaston Bachelard’s The Poetics of Space because I’ve spent much of the last three years rediscovering the place where I grew up ...
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Three or four decades ago a book entitled The Poetics of Space could hardly ... To read only The Poetics of Space is therefore to miss his originality with ...
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Environmental & Architectural Phenomenology Newsletter
With his The Poetics of Space, published in 1958, Bachelard was making the same point regarding modern architecture's organization of space on the basis of ...
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On Gaston Bachelard
Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space, trans. Maria Jolas, new intro. and foreword, John R. Stilgoe (Boston: Beacon Press, 1969, new foreword, 1994). ...
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The Poetics of Space - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Poetics of Space is a book by Gaston Bachelard published in 1958. Bachelard applies the method of phenomenology to architecture basing his analysis not ...
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Words from the Editor
Welcome to The Poetics of Space. And just to reassure you—CV2 has not gone Star Wars, Volume 27 Issue 3: Revenge of the Poems, although I would imagine more ...
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VG: Interviews: Mora, Pat
QUESTION (Oliver-Rotger): My first questions have to do with your mentioning Gaston Bachelard's The Poetics of Space right at the very beginning of House of ...
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About the author (1994)

Born in Bar-sur-Aube, France, in 1884, Gaston Bachelard received his doctorate in 1927. He became professor of philosophy at the University of Dijon in 1930, and held the chair in the history and philosophy of science at the University of Paris from 1940 to 1954. In epistemology and the philosophy of science, Bachelard espoused a dialectical rationalism, or dialogue between reason and experience. He rejected the Cartesian conception of scientific truths as immutable; he insisted on experiment as well as mathematics in the development of science. Bachelard described the cooperation between the two as a philosophy of saying no, of being ever ready to revise or abandon the established framework of scientific theory to express the new discoveries. In addition to his contributions to the epistemological foundations of science, Bachelard explored the role of reverie and emotion in the expressions of both science and more imaginative thinking. His psychological explanations of the four elements-earth, air, fire, water-illustrate this almost poetic aspect of his philosophy.

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TitleThe Poetics of Space
Volume 330 of Beacon Paperback
AuthorGaston Bachelard
Editionreprint
PublisherBeacon Press, 1994
ISBN0807064734, 9780807064733
Length288 pages
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