References
- Paris, N.R.F., 1938; now available in paperback, Gallimard, Collection Idées, the edition referred to in this article. An English translation of this text has been published: The Psychoanalysis of Fire, translated by Alan C. M. Ross, London, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1964. A number of Bachelard's works have been translated into English: The Philosophy of No: A Philosophy of the New Scientific Mind, translated by G. C. Waterston, New York, Orion Press, 1968; The Poetics of Space, translated by Maria Jolas, Boston, Beacon Press, 1969; The Poetics of Reverie: Childhood, Language and the Cosmos, translated by Daniel Russell, New York, Orion Press, 1969; Boston, Beacon Press, 1971; The Right to Dream, translated by J. R. Underwood, New York, Grossmann, 1971 (selection of Bachelard's articles, published posthumously as Le Droit de rêver, Paris, P. U. F., 1970). For the sake of consistency, I have used throughout this paper the French titles of Bachelard's books; the translations here are my own, and page references are to the French texts, which, unlike the translations, are readily available.
- See L'Eau et les rêves, 1942; L'Air et les songes, 1943; La Terre et les rêveries de la volonté, 1948; La Terre et les rêveries du repos, 1948. All published in Paris by José Corti.
- See for example Roland Barthes, ‘Criticism as Language’, T.L.S., 27th Sept. 1963: ‘Gaston Bachelard…. founded a whole critical school which is, indeed, so prolific that present-day French criticism in its most flourishing aspect can be said to be Bachelardian in inspiration…’ (p. 739).
- Physics and Philosophy, Cambridge, C.U.P., 1942, pp. 175–6.
- Le Nouvel esprit scientifique, p. 55, p. 115.
- La Philosophie du Non, p. 9, p. 144; La Formation de l'esprit scientifique, p. 15; L'Activité rationaliste de la physique contemporaine, p. 223.
- L'Etre et le Néant, Paris, Gallimard. 1943, p. 32. See translation by Hazel E. Barnes, Being and Nothingness, London, Methuen and Co., 1957, pp. lxii–lxiii, where in fact this phrase is omitted by the translator.
- Le Rationalisme appliqué, 1949; L'Activité rationaliste de la physique contemporaine, 1951; Le Matérialisme rationnel, 1953. AU published in Paris, by Presses Universitaires de France.
- For the latter, see La Poétique de l'espace, 1957; La Poétique de la rêverie, 1960; La Flamme d'une chandelle, 1961. All published in Paris, by P.U.F.
- Now included with L'Intuition de l'Instant, Paris, Gonthier, 1966, pp. 101–111, and also in Le Droit de rêver, pp. 224–232 (see note 1).
- L'Eau et les rêves, p. 213, La Terre et les rêveries de la volonté, pp. 29, 52–3, 62. Sartre borrowed this idea from Bachelard in L'Etre et le Néant, pp. 389, 561–2, 564; see translation (note 7), pp. 324, 481–2, 484.
- Surrealism and the Literary Imagination: a Study of Breton and Bachelard, The Hague, Mouton, 1966, p. 28.
- Paris, José Corti, 1939.
- Published 1937; now available in Présence et immortalité, Paris, Union Générale d'Editions, 1968, to which I refer here.
- Bachelard ou le concept contre l'image, Presses Universitaires de Montréal, 1977. See my review of this work in The Modern Language Review, Oct. 1979, pp. 948–9.
- L'Archéologie du savoir, Paris, Gallimard, 1969; references here are to the translation by A.M. Sheridan Small, The Archaeology of Knowledge, London, Tavistock Publications, 1972, pp. 203, 12 and 55 respectively.