The poetics of space by gaston bachelard6/22/2023 In it, he courses through the realms we inhabit – indoor and outdoor. In 1958, Bachelard published La Poétique de l’Espace – The Poetics of Space– a densely lyrical, almost magical book on our experience of architecture. His students, to whom he was generously devoted, loved him dearly, and his neighbours chiefly knew him as “an old man fond of choosing his own cut of meat at the market or of buying his own fish.” Gaston Bachelard in 1965, Dutch National Archives, CC BY-SA 3.0 nl, Wikipedia According to his contemporary, the philosopher and historian of philosophy Étienne Gilson, Bachelard was a man “deeply rooted in the soil of everyday life” and lived in “intimate relation with the concrete realities of nature.” He rose to the top from humble provincial origins was both admired and envied by the intellectual elite. He remained a free mind, unfettered by conventions. Although he held a prominent chair of philosophy at the prestigious Sorbonne University in Paris, the French thinker and writer Gaston Bachelard (1884-1962) never allowed himself to become molded by the traditional ways of academic thinking.
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