Appearing in English for the first time, Intuition of the Instant-Bachelard's first metaphysical meditation on time and its moral implications-was written in 1932 in the wake of Husserl's lectures on streaming time-consciousness, Heidegger's Being and Time, and Henri Bergson's philosophy of the lan vital. A culmination of Bachelard's earlier studies in scientific epistemology, this work builds the epistemic framework that would...