[Gaston Bachelard anagogical reverie and surrational at stake]

Mario Castellana1

  • 1Dipartimento di Storia, Società e Studi sull'Uomo, Università del Salento, Via Stampacchia, I-73100, Lecce, Italy, mario.castellana@unisalento.it.

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|July 31, 2015
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