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Gaston Bachelard: an elemental reverie on the world's stuff

By: Material type: TextTextDallas, TX Dallas Institute Publications c2015Description: xxxi,167 p; Bibliog. referencesContent type:
  • text
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  • unmediated
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  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780911005554
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Contents:
Introduction. Preface. 1: Calling us to the things of this world. 2: Why matter matters. 3. The seduction of matter. 4. Alchemy, the senses, and the imagination,. 5: Images and archetypes in Bachelard and Jung. 6: The dual imagination of Earth. 7: The hand of work and play. 8: The fullness of silence. 9: Gaston Bachelard an childhood education. 10: The angelic imagination. Epilogue
Abstract: 'Joanne Stroud's book on Bachelard is, you can bet on it, written by an enthusiast of the first order, and -in my view- enthusiasm is, along with his curiousity and illuminating intelligence, exactly the quality we most value in the work of the wonderful philospher of surrealism. This is what imagination is about.' - Mary Ann Caws
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Introduction. Preface. 1: Calling us to the things of this world. 2: Why matter matters. 3. The seduction of matter. 4. Alchemy, the senses, and the imagination,. 5: Images and archetypes in Bachelard and Jung. 6: The dual imagination of Earth. 7: The hand of work and play. 8: The fullness of silence. 9: Gaston Bachelard an childhood education. 10: The angelic imagination. Epilogue

'Joanne Stroud's book on Bachelard is, you can bet on it, written by an enthusiast of the first order, and -in my view- enthusiasm is, along with his curiousity and illuminating intelligence, exactly the quality we most value in the work of the wonderful philospher of surrealism. This is what imagination is about.' - Mary Ann Caws

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