Gaston Bachelard

Born	June 27, 1884(1884-06-27) Bar-sur-Aube, France
Died	October 16, 1962(1962-10-16) (aged 78) Paris, France
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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].

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.
  • The New Scientific Spirit, trans. Arthur Goldhammer, Boston: Beacon Press, 1984, ARG, PDF. (English)
  • Nový duch vedy, Bratislava: Pravda, 1981, 163 pp. (Slovak)

• La Dialectique de la durée, Boivin, 1936, ARG.
  • The Dialectic of Duration, trans. & annot. Mary McAllester Jones, intro. Cristina Chimisso, Manchester: Clinamen Press, 2000, ARG, PDF. (English)

• La Formation de l'esprit scientifique. Contribution à une psychanalyse de la connaissance objective, Paris: Vrin, 1938.
  • The Formation of the Scientific Mind: A Contribution to a Psychoanalysis of Objective Knowledge, trans. M. McAllester Jones, Clinamen Press, 2002, ARG, PDF. (English)

• La Psychanalyse du feu, Paris: Gallimard, 1938, ARG.
  • The Psychoanalysis of Fire, trans. Alan C.M. Ross, London: Routledge, 1964, ARG, PDF. (English)
  • Psychoanalýza ohně, Prague, 1994. (Czech)
  • Psihanaliza focului, trans. Lucia Ruxandra Munteanu, Bucharest: Univers, 2000. (Romanian)

• 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.
  • The Poetics of Space, trans. Maria Jolas, New York: Orion Press, 1964; Boston: Beacon Press, 1969; 1994, Log, ARG. (English)
  • Poetika prostoru, Prague, 2009. (Czech)

• La Poétique de la rêverie, Paris: PUF, 1960.
  • On Poetic Imagination and Reverie: Selections from Gaston Bachelard, ed. Colette Gaudin, Dallas: Spring Publications, 1987, lxvii+112 pp, ARG. (English)
  • 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

• at GastonBachelard.org

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)

See also

• Michel Foucault
• Michel Pêcheux

Links

• Association Internationale Gaston Bachelard