Gaston Bachelard
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Bachelard, 1965. | |
Born |
June 27, 1884 Bar-sur-Aube, France |
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Died |
October 16, 1962 Paris, France | (aged 78)
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Gaston Bachelard (1884–1962) was a French philosopher. He made contributions in the fields of poetics and the philosophy of science. To the latter he introduced the concepts of epistemological obstacle [obstacle épistémologique] and epistemological break [rupture épistémologique].
Contents
Works
(in French unless noted)
- Monographs
- Le nouvel esprit scientifique, Alcan, 1934.
- The New Scientific Spirit, trans. Arthur Goldhammer, Boston: Beacon Press, 1984, ARG. (English)
- La dialectique de la durée, Boivin, 1936, ARG.
- The Dialectic of Duration, trans. Mary McAllester Jones, Manchester: Clinamen Press, 2000, ARG. (English)
- La psychanalyse du feu, Paris: Gallimard, 1938, ARG.
- The Psychoanalysis of Fire, trans. Alan C.M. Ross, London: Routledge, 1964, ARG. (English)
- La philosophie du non: essai d'une philosophie du nouvel esprit scientifique, Paris: PUF, 1940.
- The Philosophy of No: A Philosophy of the New Scientific Mind, trans. G.C. Waterson, New York: Orion Press, 1968, ARG. (English)
- La poétique de l'espace, Paris: PUF, 1958; 3rd ed., 1961, Log.
- Bibliography
Literature
- Epistemology and History. From Bachelard and Canguilhem to Today's History of Science, Max-Planck Institute for the History of Science, 2012, 232 pp. Conference proceedings. (English)