Bachelard

>>9694529
Read Poetics of space instead.

>>9694529
I like Bachelard quite a bit. When you read up on his larger outlook, there are things I wouldn't agree with, but I like his aesthetic / poetics musings. Not as like THE way to see things, but as more enjoyable and inspired than a lot of theory out there.

Poetics of Space is good. I like Poetics of Reverie, Psychoanalisis of Fire, and Air and Dreams. All might be worthwhile.

He's probably most useful if you're an artist. I feel like writers like him, who I do like... it's not that I see it like they're showing the "right" hermeneutics.... it's that they might have a more allusive approach to reality that is creatively useful. Like something that works in a stimulating feedback with what I'm working through myself, without my having to reduce anything I do to it.

I'd rather read Heidegger, Husserl, Lefebvre and Merleau-Ponty first. Bachelard is just the trendy son of all of these.

>>9694580
>it's not that I see it like they're *using the "right" hermeneutics

Correcting that.

But that sentence is key. Really appreciate a thinker where I feel like they're opening up things and their strange life rather than closing them down as if they're a mere plot device in some other hermeneutic narrative on Capital or Class or something.

>>9694582
Why not all? (and I have use for those others)

It's not like the others riff on the same things exactly.

I'll reiterate that I think Bachelard is useful as like a toolset of interesting thoughts for an artist.

>>9694582

poetics of reverie reads like absolutely none of those other philosophers.

OP: poetics of reverie is a great and prescient book. it doesn't require any expertise in philosophy and i think anyone who takes its problems seriously will really enjoy it. every chapter is great, especially the chapter on sleep and dreaming.

http://www.michiganquarterlyreview.com/2013/09/the-poetics-of-reverie-2/

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I did not expect thought out non-meme answers! Thanks!