Sounding the Noumenal in the Phenomenal: Gaston Bachelard and José María Arguedas
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How to Cite

Rizo-Patron, E. (2020). Sounding the Noumenal in the Phenomenal: Gaston Bachelard and José María Arguedas. BACHELARD STUDIES - ÉTUDES BACHELARDIENNES - STUDI BACHELARDIANI, (1), 159-170. Retrieved from https://www.mimesisjournals.com/ojs/index.php/bachelardstudies/article/view/726

Abstract

This essay offers a reading of J.M. Arguedas’s Deep Rivers in light of Bachelard’s unfolding phenomenology, as featured and ultimately described in The Poetics of Space. Through a philosophical analysis of Bachelard’s evolving thought accompanied by examples from science and poetry, we propose to show how deeply Bachelard’s phenomenology was informed by his notion of a reverberating logos rooted in a realm of noumenal latency and potentiality. The question of how one might tap into such a living, transformative logos is then raised and illustrated through our reading of key aural imagery in Arguedas’s poetic novel set in the Andean mountains.

Keywords: Phenomenon, Noumenon, Activation, Reduction, Reverberation, Logos

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