The poetics of space

This is a rare book for use only in the library. Hardcover; xxxv + 241 pp. Translation of "La poétique de l'espace" (1958). From the dust jacket: "With this book, Bachelard inaugurated a new mode of reflection, proposed a metaphysics of the creative imagination the foundations of which could not be discovered by means of the prudent explanations of rationalism. For here he has had recourse to pure phenomenology, in order to seize upon the subjective inception of the poetic image. Indeed, in this work, Bachelard has not only renounced the rigorous working methods of his earlier analyses of scientific reasoning (1), but also the 'objective' method used in his studies of the four elements (2) Interpretation, even 'through means of depth' has been abandoned, and there is no longer any question of explaining 'the flower by the fertilizer' or the image by past experiences or archetypes." Contents: Foreward / Etienne Gilson Introduction 1. The House. From cellar to garret. Significance of the hut 2. House and universe 3. Drawers, chests and wardrobes 4. Nests 5. Shells 6. Corners 7. Miniature 8. Intimate immensity 9. The Dialectics of outside and inside 10. The Phenomenology of roundness