The Right to Dream: Essays on Aesthetics
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In twenty-six essays on aesthetics in a posthumously published collection, Gaston Bachelard (1884–1962)—a French philosopher who "gives himself the right to dream" and "to immerse himself in a meditative reverie about the nature of things"—turns to the space of active imagination, finding it not only in the visual arts (Monet, Chagall, Flocon, and others), poetry, and prose (Rimbaud, Poe, Balzac, and others), but also in dreams, radio, peace, and solitude. In his reveries, the call of the elements and the logosphere is heard, the magic of the mask and the "iron cosmos" come to life, and the psychological depths of a "textbook of solitude" are revealed. By interweaving a subtle analysis of the dreamer's thinking with existential, dynamic, ethereal dreams, dreams of ink, power, stone, dreams of silence and music, Bachelard asserts in this the inalienable right of man to integrity and a deep communion with nature.
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