Earth and reveries of will : an essay on the imagination of matter / Gaston Bachelard; translated from the French by Kenneth Haltman.
Material type: TextSeries: The Bachelard Translations SeriesDallas, TX : Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture, [2002]Description: xv, 400 pages ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780911005530
- 9780911005523
- La terre et les reveries de la volonte, essai sur l'imagination de la matiere. English
- BF173 .B1413 2002
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Orig. pub. in 1943 as La terre et les reveries de la volonte, essai sur l'imagination de la matiere, c1947 by Librairie Jose Corti, Paris.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Preface. -- 1 The dialectic of imaginary energies: the resistant world. -- 2 Incisive will and solid matter: the aggressive nature of tools. -- 3 Metaphors of hardness and solidity. -- 4 Indeterminate earthen matter. -- 5 Soft matter: the valorization of mud. -- 6 The dynamic lyricism of the blacksmith. -- 7 Rock. -- 8 Petrifying reveries. -- 9 Metalism and mineralism. -- 10 Crystals and crystalline reverie. -- 11 Dew and pearls. -- 12 The psychology of gravity
'Gaston Bachelard is the great promoter of the forces of the imagination. The expansion of expressivity in our civilization is driven by the active imagination that renews life through a never-ending chain of poetic images. The fundamental nature of these images resides in their power to suggest rather than to describe. The imagination comes to flourish in its continuous interaction with the sensuous objects of this world. And the energy of the mind gives rise to a multiplicity of images as a revitalizatiing anchor....'
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