The Poetics of Reverie: Childhood, Language, and the CosmosIn this, his last significant work, an admired French philosopher provides extraordinary meditations on the relations between the imagining consciousness and the world, positing the notion of reverie as its most dynamic point of reference. In his earlier book, The Poetics of Space, Bachelard considered several kinds of "praiseworthy space" conducive to the flow of poetic imagery. In Poetics of Reverie he considers the absolute origins of that imagery: language, sexuality, childhood, the Cartesian ego, and the universe. Approaching the psychology of wonder from the phenomenological viewpoint, Bachelard demonstrates the aurgentative potential of all that awareness. Thus he distinguishes what is merely a phenomenon of relaxation from the kind of reverie which "poetry puts on the right track, the track of expanding consciousness" |
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Contents
Translators Preface | 1 |
One Reveries on Reverie The Word Dreamer | 27 |
Two Reveries on Reverie AnimusAnima | 55 |
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| Title | The Poetics of Reverie: Childhood, Language, and the Cosmos An Ariadne book BEACON PAPERBACK. 375: PHILOSOPHY, LITERATURE Volume 375 of Beacon paperbacks |
| Author | Gaston Bachelard |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Beacon Press, 1971 |
| ISBN | 0807064130, 9780807064139 |
| Length | 228 pages |
| Subjects | › › Philosophy / Essays Philosophy / Mind & Body Philosophy / Movements / Phenomenology |
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