The Psychoanalysis of Fire Paperback by Gaston Bachelard

Product Details

• Publisher: Beacon Press (1987-01-30)
• Language: English
• Paperback: 132 pages
• ISBN-13: 9780807064610
• Item Weight: 164.43 grams
• Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.34 cm

"[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 religion. To define him as briefly as possible – he is a philosopher, with a professional training in the sciences, who devoted most of the second phase of his career to promoting that aspect of human nature which often seems most inimical to science: the poetic imagination ..." – J.G. Weightman, The New York Times Review of Books

About the Author

Gaston Bachelard (1884-1963) is the author of The Poetics of Space, The Psychoanalysis of Fire, and The New Scientific Spirit.