title: Water and Dreams: An Essay on the Imagination of Matter (Bachelard Translation Series)
author:  Gaston Bachelard 
description: THE BACHELARD TRANSLATIONS are the inspiration of Joanne H. Stroud, who in 1981 contracted with Jos Corti to publish in English the untranslated works of Bachelard on the imagination through the Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture, Dallas, Texas.<BR><BR> <P>Gaston Bachelard is acclaimed as one of the most significant modern French thinkers. From 1929 to 1962 he authored twenty-three books addressing his dual concerns, the philosophy of science and the analysis of the imagination of matter. The influence of his thought can be felt in all disciplines of the humanities - art, architecture, literature, language, poetics, philosophy, and depth psychology. His teaching career included posts at the College de Bar-sur-Aube, the University of Dijon, and from 1940 to 1962 the chair of history and philosophy of science at the Sorbonne. One of the amphitheaters of the Sorbonne is called "L'Amphi Gaston Bachelard," an honor Bachelard shared with Descartes and Richelieu. He received the Grand Prix National Lettres in 1961-one of only three philosophers ever to have achieved this honor. The influence of his thought can be felt in all disciplines of the humanities-art, architecture, literature, poetics, psychology, philosophy, and language.<BR>
zlib_text: The Bachelard Translation Series
  Joanne H . Stroud, Executive Editor 
  Robert S. Dupree, Translation Editor
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  Earth and Reveries of Will
  /in Essay on the Imagination of Matter
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  translated from the French by K e n n e th  H altm an
  T he Bachelard T ranslations 
  T he D allas Institute Publications 
  T he D allas Institute of H umanities and C ulture 
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  Originally published in 1943 as La terre et les reveries de la volonte, 
  essai sur 1’imagination de la mature
  Copyright 1947, Librairie Jose Corti, Paris
  © 2002 by The Dallas Institute Publications
  Coven Drawing on paper of Gaston Bachela