Gaston Bachelard
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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
- L'intuition de l'instant. Étude sur la Siloë de Gaston Roupnel, Paris: Stock, 1932.
- Intuition of the Instant, trans. Eileen Rizo-Patron, Northwestern University Press, 2013, ARG.
- Le nouvel esprit scientifique, Alcan, 1934.
- La dialectique de la durée, Boivin, 1936, ARG.
- La formation de l'esprit scientifique. Contribution à une psychanalyse de la connaissance objective, Paris: Vrin, 1938.
- La psychanalyse du feu, Paris: Gallimard, 1938, ARG.
- 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)
- L'eau et les rêves : essai sur l'imagination de la matière, José Corti, 1941.
- Voda a sny. Esej o obraznosti hmoty, Prague, 1997. (Czech)
- La poétique de l'espace, Paris: PUF, 1958; 3rd ed., 1961, Log.
- La poétique de la rêverie, Paris: PUF, 1960.
- Poetika snění, Prague, 2010. (Czech)
- La flamme d'une chandelle, Paris: PUF, 1961.
- Plamen svíce, trans. Richard Vyhlidal, Prague: Obelisk, 1970, 84 pp, PDF; 1997. (Czech)
- 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)