Adventures in Phenomenology: Gaston Bachelard (SUNY series by Eileen Rizo-Patron,Edward S. Casey,Jason M. Wirth

By Eileen Rizo-Patron,Edward S. Casey,Jason M. Wirth

Repositions Bachelard as a serious and necessary a part of modern continental philosophy.

Like Schelling prior to him and Deleuze and Guattari after him, Gaston Bachelard made significant philosophical contributions to the development of technological know-how and the humanities. as well as being a mathematician and epistemologist whose influential paintings within the philosophy of technology continues to be being absorbed, Bachelard used to be additionally some of the most leading edge thinkers on poetic creativity and its moral implications. His techniques to literature and the humanities when it comes to elemental reverie woke up long-buried modes of considering that experience encouraged literary critics, intensity psychologists, poets, and artists alike. Bachelard’s notable physique of labor, unduly ignored by way of the English-language reception of continental philosophy in fresh many years, shows a capability to talk to the total complexity and wider reaches of human pondering. The essays during this quantity research Bachelard as a phenomenological philosopher and situate his concept in the Western culture. contemplating his paintings along that of Schelling, Husserl, Bergson, Buber, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, Gadamer, Deleuze, and Nancy, this assortment highlights a few of Bachelard’s such a lot provocative proposals on questions of ontology, hermeneutics, ethics, environmental politics, spirituality, and the probabilities they give for effective variations of self and world.

Eileen Rizo-Patron is examine affiliate on the heart for Philosophy, Interpretation, and tradition at Binghamton collage, country college of latest York. She is the coeditor (with Richard Kearney) of Traversing the guts: trips of the Inter-religious Imagination and the translator of Bachelard’s Intuition of the Instant.

Edward S. Casey is uncommon Professor of Philosophy at Stony Brook collage, kingdom college of latest York. he's the writer of many books, together with The destiny of position: A Philosophical History.

Jason M. Wirth is Professor of Philosophy at Seattle collage. His books contain Schelling’s perform of the Wild: Time, paintings, Imagination, additionally released by way of SUNY Press.

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