The Hand of the Engraver

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The Hand of the Engraver

Albert Flocon Meets Gaston Bachelard

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Hans-Jorg Rheinberger

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Hardback

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SUNY series, Intersections: Philosophy and Critical Theory

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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.

Author Biography:

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.

Release date Australia

December 1st, 2018

Author

Hans-Jorg Rheinberger

Audience

General (US: Trade)

Contributor

Translated by Kate Sturge

Illustrations

Total Illustrations: 29

Pages

126

Series

SUNY series, Intersections: Philosophy and Critical Theory

Dimensions

140x216x25

ISBN-13

9781438472119

Product ID

28548543

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