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Author | Gaston Bachelard |
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Original title | La Poétique de l'Espace |
Translator | Maria Jolas |
Language | French |
Series | Bibliothèque de philosophie contemporaine |
Subject | Architecture |
Publisher | Presses Universitaires de France |
Publication date | 1958 |
Publication place | France |
Published in English | 1964 |
Media type | Print (Hardback & Paperback) |
Pages | 241 (English translation) |
ISBN | 0-8070-6439-4 (English edition) |
The Poetics of Space (French: La Poétique de l'Espace) is a 1958 book about architecture by the French philosopher Gaston Bachelard. The book is considered an important work about art. Commentators have compared Bachelard's views to those of the philosopher Martin Heidegger.