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The Poetics of Space

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Beacon Press, 1994 - Philosophy - 241 pages
The classic book on how we experience intimate spaces.

"A magical book. . . . A prism through which all worlds from literary creation to housework to aesthetics to carpentry take on enhanced—and enchanted-significances. Every reader of it will never see ordinary spaces in ordinary ways. Instead the reader will see with the soul of the eye, the glint of Gaston Bachelard." —from the foreword by John R. Stilgoe

6473-4 / $15.00tx / paperback

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Prose, prose, prose! - Goodreads
amazing—inspiration for half of my artwork - Goodreads
Interesting and eloquent in his writing. - Goodreads

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a little imaginative gem, cosmic and intimate in equal measures Read full review

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This book seemed so promising. The title sounds exactly in my interest area. The table of contents is this tempting list: "The House, from Cellar to Garret, The Significance of the Hut", "House and ... Read full review

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About the author (1994)

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

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