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The Psychoanalysis of Fire(Updated)
by Gaston Bachelard, Northrop Frye, Alan Ross, A. C. Ross
Paperback, 132 Pages, Published 1987 by Beacon Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8070-6461-0, ISBN: 0-8070-6461-0

""[Bachelard] is neither a self-confessed and tortured atheist like Satre, nor, like Chardin, a heretic combining a belief in God with a proficiency in modern science. But, within the French context, he is almost as important as they are because he has a pseudo-religious force, without taking a stand on religion. To define him as briefly as possible – he is a philosopher, with a professional training in the sciences, who devoted most of ..."

The New Scientific Spirit
(English and French Edition)
by Gaston Bachelard, Arthur Goldhammer, Patrick A. Heelan
Paperback, 214 Pages, Published 1986 by Beacon Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8070-1501-8, ISBN: 0-8070-1501-6

"This spirited exploration of the foundations of the new physics focuses on many currently debated issues in the philosophy of science . . . The discussion reflects unusual depth of knowledge of the history of science and the philosophical tradition. A wealth of bon mots enliven the work, retaining much of their poignancy in the excellent translation."

The Psychoanalysis of Fire(Updated)
by Gaston Bachelard, Northrop Frye
Paperback, 116 Pages, Published 1987 by Quartet Qrime
ISBN-13: 978-0-7043-0033-0, ISBN: 0-7043-0033-8

"The subject of this unusual book is best described by the author. "We are going to study a problem that no one has managed to approach objectively, one in which the initial charm of the object is so strong that it still has the power to warp the minds of the clearest thinkers and to keep bringing them back to the poetic fold in which dreams replace thought and poems conceal theorems. This problem is the psychological problem posed by ou ..."

The New Scientific Spirit
(English and French Edition)
by Gaston Bachelard, Arthur Goldhammer
Hardcover, 190 Pages, Published 1985 by Beacon Pr
ISBN-13: 978-0-8070-1500-1, ISBN: 0-8070-1500-8

"Examines the changes during the twentieth century in the views of mathematics, physics, and the scientific method and discusses the role of the mind in science"

The Flame of a Candle
(Bachelard Translation Series)
by Gaston Bachelard, Joni Caldwell
Paperback, 89 Pages, Published 1988 by Dallas Institute Publications
ISBN-13: 978-0-911005-15-8, ISBN: 0-911005-15-3

""This book further-cements his thematic contention that the imagination is a flame, the flame of the psyche." - Joanne Stroud. Chapters include "Poetic Images of the Flame in Plant Life," ''The Solitude of the Candle Dreamer," and "The Light of the Lamp." THE BACHELARD TRANSLATIONS are the inspiration of Joanne H. Stroud, Director of Publications for The Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture, who in 1981 contracted with José Corti ..."

Poetique de L'Espace
(French Edition)
by Gaston Bachelard
Paperback, Published 1992 by French & European Pubns
ISBN-13: 978-0-7859-3019-8, ISBN: 0-7859-3019-1

"L''interprétation bachelardienne du concept d''espace en philosophie.L''originalité de la philosophie de Bachelard tient à la place donnée, dans ses recherches, à l''imagination et à la poésie. En proposant « de considérer l''imagination comme une puissance majeure de la nature humaine », il a ainsi ouvert de nouveaux espaces à la réflexion philosophique, dont s''inspirent toujours de nombreux philosophes."

L'Air et les Songes
Essai sur l'imagination du mouvement
by Gaston Bachelard
Paperback, 350 Pages, Published 1992 by French & European Pubns
ISBN-13: 978-0-7859-3424-0, ISBN: 0-7859-3424-3

La Philosophie du Non
by Gaston Bachelard
Paperback, 160 Pages, Published 1988 by French & European Pubns
ISBN-13: 978-0-7859-3010-5, ISBN: 0-7859-3010-8

Air and Dreams
An Essay on the Imagination of Movement (Bacheland Translation Series) (English and French Edition)
by Gaston Bachelard, Edith R. Farrell, C. Frederick Farrell
Hardcover, 298 Pages, Published 1988 by Dallas Inst Humanities & Culture
ISBN-13: 978-0-911005-11-0, ISBN: 0-911005-11-0

La Flamme d'une Chandelle
by Gaston Bachelard
Paperback, Published 1986 by French & European Pubns
ISBN-13: 978-0-7859-3006-8, ISBN: 0-7859-3006-X

Le\Rationalisme Applique
by Gaston Bachelard
Paperback, 224 Pages, Published 1986 by French & European Pubns
ISBN-13: 978-0-7859-3007-5, ISBN: 0-7859-3007-8

La\Psychanalyse du Feu
by Gaston Bachelard
Paperback, Published 1985 by French & European Pubns
ISBN-13: 978-0-7859-2799-0, ISBN: 0-7859-2799-9

The Flame of a Candle(2nd Edition)
by Gaston Bachelard, Joni Caldwell
Hardcover, 89 Pages, Published 1988 by Dallas Inst Humanities & Culture
ISBN-13: 978-0-911005-14-1, ISBN: 0-911005-14-5

"This book further cements Bachelard's thematic contention that the imagination is the flame, the flame of the psyche. Chapters include"

Gaston Bachelard, Subversive Humanist(1st Edition)
Texts and Readings (Science & Literature)
by Mary Mcallester Jones, Gaston Bachelard
Paperback, 192 Pages, Published 1991 by University Of Wisconsin Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-299-12794-7, ISBN: 0-299-12794-X

" In an elegant translation, Mary McAllester Jones brings to English-speaking readers the writings of a singular French philosopher of science whose rich intellectual legacy is too little known. Gaston Bachelard, who died in 1962, left us twelve works on the philosophy of science, nine on the poetic imagination, and two on time and consciousness, written in an image-laden style that rejected traditional academic discourse in favor ..."

The Right to Dream
by Gaston Bachelard, J. A. Underwood
Paperback, 190 Pages, Published 1989 by Dallas Institute Of Humanities And Culture
ISBN-13: 978-0-911005-16-5, ISBN: 0-911005-16-1

"A collection of essays on the arts (Chagall, Monet, Corti, Segal), literature (Rimbaud, Eluard, Poe, Balzac), and critical principles. Bachelard"

Water and dreams(1st Edition)
An essay on the imagination of matter (The Bachelard translations)
by Gaston Farrell Bachelard, Edith R. Farrell
Paperback, 213 Pages, Published 1983 by Pegasus Foundation
ISBN-13: 978-0-911005-01-1, ISBN: 0-911005-01-3

"Book by Bachelard, Gaston"

Albert Flocon
Une Poetique de la Vision, Du Bauhaus a la Perspective Curviligne / Eine Poetik des Sehens: Vom Bauhaus zur Kurvenlinearen Perspektive; Exposition, Galerie de L'esplanade, Ecole des Beaux-arts de Metz, Du 13 mai au 31 juillet 1992; Collection Parcours / Modernites
by Albert Flocon, Gaston Bachelard, Paul Eluard, Et. Al
121 Pages, Published 1992 by Ecole De Beaux-Arts De Metz
ISBN-13: 978-2-909588-00-1, ISBN: 2-909588-00-9

L'Air et les songes
Essai sur l'imagination du mouvement (Biblio Essais) (French Edition)
by Gaston Bachelard
Paperback, 350 Pages, Published 1992 by Livre De Poche
ISBN-13: 978-2-253-06100-7, ISBN: 2-253-06100-X

"Tous les etres qui aiment la grande reverie simplifiee, simplifiante, devant un ciel qui n est rien autre chose que - le monde de transparence -, comprendront la vanite des - apparitions -. Pour eux, la - transparence - sera la plus reelle des apparences. Elle leur donnera une lecon intime de lucidite. Si le monde est aussi volonte, le ciel bleu est volonte de lucidite. Le - miroir sans tain - qu est un ciel bleu eveille un narcissisme ..."

Epistemologie
by Gaston Bachelard
Paperback, 216 Pages, Published 1992 by Imprint Unknown
ISBN-13: 978-2-13-044684-2, ISBN: 2-13-044684-1

L'AIR ET LES SONGES.
Essai sur l'imagination du mouvement (LES ESSAIS)
by Gaston Bachelard
Paperback, 306 Pages, Published 1989 by José Corti *
ISBN-13: 978-2-7143-0194-9, ISBN: 2-7143-0194-0

"Bachelard sʹattache ici à rassembler et à analyser des éléments épars du psychisme aérien, dʹabord tel quʹil se manifeste dans les rêves de vol point de départ de nombreuses croyances et dʹinnombrables développements poétiques ..."