[EN] Gaston Bachelard - The Poetics of Space (1958)
* I wrote this reading journal in Korean myself and translated it using ChatGPT. The first feeling I had while reading The Poetics of Space was a strange sense of calm. When I read philosophy, I usually feel tense. Most philosophical works deal with themes that press heavily on human life—anxiety, the burden of freedom, conflicts with others, the absurdity of the world. But this book approaches the human being from a different direction. Bachelard does not begin by seeing humans as beings who must struggle against the world, but as beings who are sheltered, who dwell, and who dream. That perspective gave me a deep sense of relief. What struck me most was the way he takes seriously small spaces—houses, rooms, drawers, corners, seashells, bird nests. I began to understand why I have always been drawn to such images. What might easily be overlooked as trivial or insignificant spaces are, in fact, deeply connected to the human interior. I still find myself thinking about these ima...