Experiencing the Elements: Salt-working as Environmental Wisdom
Programme and abstracts July 2, 2026 Maja Bjelica, Petri Berndtson
Gaston Bachelard brings the forgotten classical elements of earth, water, air and fire back to philosophy in the 1930s and 1940s by writing at least one book dedicated to each of these elements. The elements are not at all what science, for example, chemistry says of them, but something experiential, phenomenological, imaginative, psychological and poetic as they inspire us to live, dream,...