The Poetics Of Space By Gaston Bachelard Pdf

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This is often the case with anthropological studies. It is no wonder, then, that Mircea Eliade was attracted to the phenomenological writings of Gaston Bachelard and his insights into the material imagination.

Evident in this reflection is the impulse for totality that haunt existential thinkers like Albert Camus. Not only do we have the phenomena functioning symbolically right in front of us, but each experience of that phenomena adds material to our closely woven fabric of reality. This is because the imagination celebrates both the cognitive and existential functions that Eliade so eloquently identifies.

No matter how eloquently we might describe the function of the imagination, it is crucial that we remember how complex the process of living and therefore imagining is. With each breath, we apprehend new and living phenomena, while attempting to navigate time and space, and charting the territory that we traverse.

The German biologist, Andreas Weber, calls poetic space the most simple and the most enigmatic of all possible spaces in his 2016 book, Biopoetics: Towards an Existential Ecology. Eliade, he acknowledges, helps solidify the essence of poetic space. Poetic space does not re-present anything but offers a way to describe space that is alive:

For Mircea Eliade there are no objects that are inherently autonomous and carry value in and of themselves. This powerful, primordial essence that emerges from poetic space is a consequence of our status as dynamic, moving beings.

In The Spell of the Sensuous, cultural ecologist and philosopher, David Abram, writes about the role that repetition plays in the relationship between these rich connections that make up the fabric of our universe:

Meaning is tied to story, story is tied to narrative, and repetition is how the narrative reinforces the poetics of space. Repetition is required for space to sing reality. The role of repetition in exercising the poetics of space is one that Gaston Bachelard comments on:

What, then, is the relationship between repetition and imagination? The common factor of attention emerges in both and manifests in myth. In describing a kind of consciousness that celebrates historical and personal experiences, Mircea Eliade comments on the vital act of attention:

These solutions often emerge from the myths we invent to navigate space and time. The cognitive function of the imagination requires attending to phenomena in a manner synonymous with the existential function of the imagination. The practice of both functions of the imagination manifest in sacred experiences that transcend time and space.

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