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Gaston Bachelard: The Earth and the Dreamers of Will: An Essay on the Imagination of Matter
Gaston Bachelard, mathematician, epistemologist and theoretician of poetic imagination - I cannot find a more appropriate term for the latter, for the part of his works that particularly interests us here - is, as far as I know, the only thinker who knew and agreed to sacrifice and self-limitations, from the distraction of modern man between his primal nature and the imperatives of a new rationality and scientific efficiency, build wisdom, avoiding painful collisions. "I don't like infinity, because in the infinite man is not in his house", says Bachelard...
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