{"product_id":"the-flame-of-a-candle-paperback","title":"The Flame of a Candle - Paperback","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Flame of a Candle\u003c\/em\u003e is Gaston Bachelard at his most intimate — a philosophical reverie on fire as a symbol of the psyche, moving through meditations on the candle, the lamp, and the flame as it appears in the natural world. Chapters including \"The Solitude of the Candle Dreamer\" and \"Poetic Images of the Flame in Plant Life\" reveal Bachelard's singular gift for finding the vast within the small, and the philosophical within the everyday.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eBachelard (1884–1962) is widely regarded as one of the most significant French thinkers of the twentieth century, whose work across twenty-three books touched every discipline of the humanities — architecture, literature, poetics, psychology, and philosophy among them. He held the chair of history and philosophy of science at the Sorbonne from 1940 to 1962, and received the Grand Prix National Lettres in 1961, one of only three philosophers ever to have done so.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThis English translation by Joni Caldwell is part of The Bachelard Translations, a series initiated by Joanne H. Stroud of The Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture to bring Bachelard's untranslated works on the imagination to English-speaking readers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e110 pages. Published November 2012.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47490960916658,"sku":"9780911005158","price":21.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0766\/8924\/4338\/files\/fd0c0c013839222db0652fd677f18f75.webp?v=1779384987","url":"https:\/\/surfurbia.com\/products\/the-flame-of-a-candle-paperback","provider":"Surfurbia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}