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The Poetics of Space by Gaston Bachelard
Category: Architecture
Published in English in the 1960s, this text focuses on how we experience intimate places, and how our perceptions of houses and other shelters shape our thoughts, memories and dreams.
The Poetics of Space by Gaston Bachelard
Category: Art and Design
A beloved multidisciplinary treatise comes to Penguin Classics Rare is the work of philosophy that invites both the casual reader and the academic. Rare, too, is the text so universal that luminaries across an array of fields lay claim to it. Yet, that is precisely the case with Gaston Bachelard’s The P ...Show more
The Psychoanalysis of Fire by Gaston Bachelard
Category: Culture | Series: Beacon Paperback
Bachelard is neither a self-confessed and tortured atheist like Satre, nor, like Chardin, a heretic combining a belief in God with a proficiency in modern science. But, within the French context, he is almost as important as they are because he has a pseudo-religious force, without taking a stand on rel ...Show more
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