Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. The New Scientific Mind: The Epistemological Rupture; The Epistemological Obstacle; The; Ruses of Prejudice; Naïvety; Science and History; Rationalism; Truth, Dialectics, the Philosophy of No; Mathematics, la phénoménotechnique; Against Substance; Pythagorism (and further thoughts on la phénoménotechnique); Some Concluding Remarks; Appendix to Chapter 1: 'Surrationalism' by Gaston Bachelard; 2. The Imaginary: The Turn; The Imagining Faculty; Imagination and Violence; Narcissism; The Body, Hylozoism; A Psychoanalysis of a Philosophical Mind; The Four Elements; The Imaginary and Philosophy; Overcoming Pain, Overcoming DeathTopophilia; Masculine Death, Feminine Death; 3. The Poetics of Time: The Instant; Duration; The Void; Rhythm and Vibration; Against Bergson; The Void and Nothingness; Concluding Remarks; Appendix: Bachelard and Atomism: Some Preliminary Remarks on Democritus, Epicurus and Pierre Gassendi; Democritus and Hylozoism; The Atom in Contemporary Thought; The Void; Four Atomist systems; Bachelard and Atomism (Epistemology); Bachelard and Atomism ('Metaphysics'); On Philosophical Aspiration; Notes; Bibliography; Index.