{"product_id":"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\u003e","brand":"Bachelard, Gaston","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback B102","offer_id":68264528642260,"sku":"9780807064139","price":40.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1000\/9208\/files\/BNCImageAPI_2143a94d-7dda-40ea-8312-3f561500d508.jpg?v=1793647954","url":"https:\/\/penguinshop.ca\/products\/9780807064139","provider":"Penguin Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}