{"product_id":"the-poetics-of-reverie-isbn-9780807064139","title":"The Poetics of Reverie","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn this, his last significant work, an admired French philosopher provides extraordinary meditations on the relations between the imagining consciousness and the world, positing the notion of \u003ci\u003ereverie\u003c\/i\u003e as its most dynamic point of reference. In his earlier book, \u003ci\u003eThe Poetics of Space, \u003c\/i\u003eBachelard considered several kinds of \"praiseworthy space\" conducive to the flow of poetic imagery. In \u003ci\u003ePoetics of Reverie \u003c\/i\u003ehe considers the absolute origins of that imagery: language, sexuality, childhood, the Cartesian ego, and the universe. Approaching the psychology of wonder from the phenomenological viewpoint, Bachelard demonstrates the aurgentative \u003ci\u003epotential \u003c\/i\u003eof all that awareness. Thus he distinguishes what is merely a phenomenon of relaxation from the kind of reverie which \"poetry puts on the right track, the track of expanding consciousness\"\u003c\/p\u003eGaston Bachelard (1884-1963) is the author of\u003ci\u003e The Poetics of Space\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Psychoanalysis of Fire\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe New Scientific Spirit\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Beacon Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46301423796453,"sku":"NP9780807064139","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780807064139.jpg?v=1767740988","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/the-poetics-of-reverie-isbn-9780807064139","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}