Summary
Gaston Bachelard: Air and Dreams
Essay on the Imagination of Movement
The imaginative powers of our spirit develop in two very different directions. Some gain momentum in front of the newspaper; they are entertained by vividness, variety, unexpected event. The imagination they trigger always describes a certain spring. In nature, far from us, they already live, they produce flowers. Other imaginative powers dig into the depths of being; they look for the original and the eternal in being. They rule the seasons and history. In nature, within us and outside of us, they produce germs in which form is immersed in substance, in which form is internal. Philosophically speaking, we could distinguish between two types of imagination: the imagination that gives life to a formal cause and the imagination that gives life to a material cause, or in short formal and material imagination.
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