Air and dreams; an essay on the imagination of movement
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TextSeries: (The Bachelard translation series)Dallas, TX Dallas Institute Pub. c1988Description: xi, 298p.; bibliog. notes; indicesContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0-911005-11-0
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Orig. pub. as L'Air et les songes, essai sur l'imagination du mouvement by Librairie Jose Corti, c1943. Trans. from the French by Edith R. Farrell and C. Frederick Farrell.
Intro.: Imagination and mobility. 1 The dream of flight. 2 The poetics of wings. 3 The imaginary fall. 4 The works of Robert Desoille. 5 Nietzsche and the ascensional psyche. 6 The blue sky. 7 The constellations. 8 Clouds. 9 The nebula. 10 The aerial tree. 11 The wind. 12 Silent speech. Conclusion:. Part I: The literary image. Part II: Cinematic philosophy and dynamic philosophy
'In Air and Dreams, the 3rd of 5 volumes on the elemental imagination, Bachelard is particularly struck by images of ascension associated with the element of air. The lesson for Bachelard is that poetic images of air, the least solid of the elements, reveal a fundamental dynamic imagination that shapes our very perception of reality...Our experience of the world does not govern our imagination and our verbal images; rather it is our imagination and associated verbal images that guide our experience of the world.'
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