by Gaston Bachelard · Fondo de Cultura Económica · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788437503653
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Water and Dreams is an essay by the French philosopher Gaston Bachelard, originally published in 1942. In this work, Bachelard explores the relationship between water and imagination, analyzing how water influences our dreams and fantasies. The author examines different aspects of water, such as its fluidity, its transparency, and its ability to reflect, and how these aspects relate to creativity and human imagination. This book is a continuation of other texts by the author about the imagination of matter, and is closely linked to the rest of his work, both in its historical-scientific aspect and in its philosophical dimension.
Gaston Louis Pierre Bachelard was a French philosopher. He made contributions in the fields of poetics and the philosophy of science. To the latter, he introduced the concepts of epistemological obstacle and epistemological break. He influenced many subsequent French philosophers, among them Michel Foucault, Louis Althusser, Dominique Lecourt and Jacques Derrida, as well as the sociologists Pierre Bourdieu and Bruno Latour.
