Gaston Bachelard, Revised and Updated by Smith, Roch C. -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Copyright Contents Acknowledgments Abbreviations Chronology Introduction

A Final Word on Translations

One: The Man and His Times

The Intellectual Atmosphere Bachelard’s Life Bachelard’s Duality

Two: Early Epistemology

Knowledge by Approximation Induction—La Valeur inductive de la relativité Coherence—Le Pluralisme cohérent de la chimie moderne

Three: The New Scientific Mind

A Transcendent Science Non-Euclidian Geometry Non-Newtonian Physics Non-Cartesian Epistemology The Experience of Space The Psychoanalysis of Objective Knowledge The Epistemological Obstacle Pedagogical Consequences The Epistemological Profile Non-Aristotelian Logic The Dialectic of Reason and Matter

Four: Fragmentation and the Temptation of Ontology

The Atom and the Seduction of Realism Toward an Axiomatic Atomism The Instant and the Intuition of Time Instant, Continuity, and the Aesthetic Solution Duration and the Temporal Dialectic Rhythmical Continuity and the Formalizing Consciousness Poetry and the Ontological Temptation

Five: Fire, Water, and the Material Imagination

Poetry and Science as Complementary Opposites Fire and Complexes Beginning a Theory of the Literary Imagination Lautréamont and the Lessons of Science and Poetry Water and Culture Complexes The Material Imagination and Reverie The Question of Method

Six: Air, Earth, and the Dynamic Imagination

Air and Dynamic Vertical Imagery The Copernican Revolution of the Imagination Earth and Aggression: A Conciliation of the Material and Dynamic Imaginations The Primal Image and Verbal Exuberance The Ontological Function of the Image Earth and Images of Intensity

Seven: A Phenomenology of the Creative Imagination

A Nonreductive Philosophy of Reading From Topoanalysis to Reverberation A Phenomenology of Poetic Reverie Animus and Anima The Metaphysics of Reverie An Ineluctable Epistemology Candlelight and Solitary Reverie Reflections from a fragmented Poetics of Fire

Eight: Toward a Complementary Approach to Criticism Notes Bibliography Index Back Cover