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Gaston Bachelard : philosopher of science and imagination
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ISBN: 1438461925 9781438461922 9781438461915 1438461933 1438461917 9781438461939 Year: 2016 Publisher: Albany : State University of New York Press,

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Gaston Bachelard, one of twentieth-century France's most original thinkers, is known by English-language readers primarily as the author of The Poetics of Space and several other books on the imagination, but he made significant contributions to the philosophy and history of science. In this book, Roch C. Smith provides a comprehensive introduction to Bachelard's work, demonstrating how his writings on the literary imagination can be better understood in the context of his exploration of how knowledge works in science. After an overview of Bachelard's writings on the scientific mind as it was transformed by relativity, quantum physics, and modern chemistry, Smith examines Bachelard's works on the imagination in light of particular intellectual values Bachelard derived from science. His trajectory from science to a specifically literary imagination is traced by recognizing his concern with what science teaches about how we know, and his increasing preoccupation with questions of being when dealing with poetic imagery. Smith also explores the material and dynamic imagination associated with the four elements—fire, water, air, and earth—and the phenomenology of creative imagination in Bachelard's Poetics of Space, his Poetics of Reverie, and in the fragments of Poetics of Fire.


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Adventures in phenomenology : Gaston Bachelard
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ISBN: 1438466072 9781438466071 9781438466057 9781438466064 1438466064 1438466056 Year: 2017 Publisher: New York : State University of New-York Press,

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Like Schelling before him and Deleuze and Guattari after him, Gaston Bachelard made major philosophical contributions to the advancement of science and the arts. In addition to being a mathematician and epistemologist whose influential work in the philosophy of science is still being absorbed, Bachelard was also one of the most innovative thinkers on poetic creativity and its ethical implications. His approaches to literature and the arts by way of elemental reverie awakened long-buried modes of thinking that have inspired literary critics, depth psychologists, poets, and artists alike. Bachelard's extraordinary body of work, unduly neglected by the English-language reception of continental philosophy in recent decades, exhibits a capacity to speak to the full complexity and wider reaches of human thinking. The essays in this volume analyze Bachelard as a phenomenological thinker and situate his thought within the Western tradition. Considering his work alongside that of Schelling, Husserl, Bergson, Buber, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, Gadamer, Deleuze, and Nancy, this collection highlights some of Bachelard's most provocative proposals on questions of ontology, hermeneutics, ethics, environmental politics, spirituality, and the possibilities they offer for productive transformations of self and world.


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Gaston Bachelard musicien : Une philosophie des silences et des timbres
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ISSN: 1762102X ISBN: 9782757401613 2757401610 275742727X Year: 2020 Volume: 1230 Publisher: Villeneuve d'Ascq : Presses universitaires du Septentrion,

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Si comme le pensait Nietzsche, « les hommes supérieurs se distinguent par le fait qu’ils entendent infiniment plus », Bachelard figure parmi ces esprits pour qui penser et sentir est une seule et même chose. L’objectif de ce livre n’est pas tant de découvrir en ce philosophe un musicien que d’étudier les enjeux d’une phénoménologie de l’écoute dans l’expérience musicale qui permet de faire l’épreuve de soi, de « voir et entendre, ultra-voir et ultra-entendre, s’entendre voir et s’entendre écouter » (Bachelard). Cette conception est le fruit d’une activité créatrice intense, qui se déploie dans la musique de manière privilégiée et répond à une autre logique, fondée sur des critères éthiques et non forcément artistiques. Porteuse d’intersubjectivité, cette « esthétique concrète » n’a qu’une seule exigence : le degré de vie de l’œuvre qu’il s’agit de transmettre. C’est dire la relation qu’a tout art avec la musique quand celle-ci est conçue comme un « jeu avec les forces », animé par un orchestre invisible, sis en chacun de nous. Cela renvoie au concept de « santé », appréhendé ici comme la capacité à « nourrir sa vie » et à l’entretenir grâce à l’exercice quotidien de la lecture active et de la pratique artistique. Il appartient au musicien qui « entend par l’imagination plus que par la perception » (Bachelard), de nous apprendre à sentir et à penser le monde, soumis aujourd’hui à une dé-perception au profit de la sensation qui conduit à une crise des modalités du lien.

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