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UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MILWAUKEE
For Bachelard, will is not abstract but — we learn to will by encountering the resistance of hard substances.
( La Terre et les rêveries de la volonté ) is arguably Bachelard’s most aggressive and muscular text. While his works on Air, Water, and Fire focus on liquidity, light, and transformation, the Earth volume is about resistance . It is about the hammer that strikes the anvil, the miner digging through darkness, and the potter shaping clay.
This work is highly relevant to contemporary "new materialisms," which seek to understand the agency of non-human matter.
In the vast landscape of 20th-century philosophy, few thinkers navigated the terrain between the hard sciences and the soft arts as successfully as Gaston Bachelard. While known for his epistemological breaks in the philosophy of science, it is his later work on the "material imagination" that continues to captivate poets, architects, and dreamers.
: The "imagination of the eyes," which delights in surfaces, colors, and ephemeral forms.
For Bachelard, will is not abstract but — we learn to will by encountering the resistance of hard substances.
( La Terre et les rêveries de la volonté ) is arguably Bachelard’s most aggressive and muscular text. While his works on Air, Water, and Fire focus on liquidity, light, and transformation, the Earth volume is about resistance . It is about the hammer that strikes the anvil, the miner digging through darkness, and the potter shaping clay.
This work is highly relevant to contemporary "new materialisms," which seek to understand the agency of non-human matter.
In the vast landscape of 20th-century philosophy, few thinkers navigated the terrain between the hard sciences and the soft arts as successfully as Gaston Bachelard. While known for his epistemological breaks in the philosophy of science, it is his later work on the "material imagination" that continues to captivate poets, architects, and dreamers.
: The "imagination of the eyes," which delights in surfaces, colors, and ephemeral forms.
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