Hans-Jörg Rheinberger 
The Hand of the Engraver [EPUB ebook] 
Albert Flocon Meets Gaston Bachelard

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This book is the first to explore in detail the encounter between Albert Flocon and Gaston Bachelard in postwar Paris. Bachelard was a philosopher and historian of science who was also involved in literary studies and poetics. Flocon was a student of the Bauhaus in Dessau, Germany, who specialized in copper engraving. Both deeply ingrained in the surrealist avant-garde movements, each acted at the frontiers of their respective métiers in exploring uncharted territory. Bachelard experienced the sciences of his time as constantly undergoing radical changes, and he wanted to create a historical epistemology that would live up to this experience. He saw the elementary gesture of the copper engraver—the hand of the engraver—as meeting the challenge of resistant and resilient matter in an exemplary fashion. Flocon was fascinated by Bachelard’s unconventional approach to the sciences and his poetics. Together, their relationship interrogated and celebrated the interplay of hand and matter as it occurs in poetic writing, in the art of engraving, and in scientific experimentation. In the form of a double biography, Hans-Jörg Rheinberger succeeds in writing a lucid intellectual history and at the same time presents a fascinating illustrated reading of Flocon’s copper engravings.

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Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Surrationalism
Albert Flocon, Gaston Bachelard
Perspectives
Reveries of Earth
In Praise of Hands
Landscapes
On Engraving
Poetics
Castles in Spain
Science, Art, Literature
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Über den Autor

Hans-Jörg Rheinberger is Director Emeritus at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Germany.
Kate Sturge is a translator and editor based in Berlin, Germany, and Visiting Senior Lecturer in Translation Studies at Aston University, United Kingdom.

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Sprache Englisch ● Format EPUB ● Seiten 126 ● ISBN 9781438472126 ● Dateigröße 5.7 MB ● Übersetzer Kate Sturge ● Verlag State University of New York Press ● Erscheinungsjahr 2018 ● herunterladbar 24 Monate ● Währung EUR ● ID 7658089 ● Kopierschutz Adobe DRM
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