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Appearing in English for the first time, Intuition of the InstantBachelard's first metaphysical meditation on time and its moral implicationswas written in 1932 in the wake of Husserl's lectures on streaming time-consciousness, Heidegger's Being and Time, and Henri Bergson's philosophy of the élan vital. A culmination of Bachelard's earlier studies in scientific epistemology, this work builds the epistemic framework that would lead theorists of all stripes to advance knowledge by breaking with accepted modes of thought. Intuition of the Instant sows the seeds of Bachelard's future poetics, most notably in the essay Poetic Instant and Metaphysical Instant (1939)included in this volume, along with an excerpt from Jean Lescure's lecture Introduction to Bachelard's Poetics (1966). Eileen Rizo-Patron's translation offers a key to Bachelard's subsequent works on science, time, and imagination, which remain epistemological touchstones.

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      Publisher: Northwestern University Press
      Publication Date: 4/30/2013 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780810129047, 978-0810129047
      ISBN10: 0810129043
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      Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge

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      Book Synopsis
      Appearing in English for the first time, Intuition of the InstantBachelard's first metaphysical meditation on time and its moral implicationswas written in 1932 in the wake of Husserl's lectures on streaming time-consciousness, Heidegger's Being and Time, and Henri Bergson's philosophy of the élan vital. A culmination of Bachelard's earlier studies in scientific epistemology, this work builds the epistemic framework that would lead theorists of all stripes to advance knowledge by breaking with accepted modes of thought. Intuition of the Instant sows the seeds of Bachelard's future poetics, most notably in the essay Poetic Instant and Metaphysical Instant (1939)included in this volume, along with an excerpt from Jean Lescure's lecture Introduction to Bachelard's Poetics (1966). Eileen Rizo-Patron's translation offers a key to Bachelard's subsequent works on science, time, and imagination, which remain epistemological touchstones.

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