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Gaston Bachelard (1884–1962)

Author of The Poetics of Space

Includes the names: Bashliar G., G Bachelard, Bachelard G., Gaston Baslar, Gaston Bacelard, Gaston Bachelard, Gaston Bachelard, Bachelard Gaston, Gastón  Bachelard, G.バシュラール ... (see complete list), Prof. Gaston. Bachelard, ガストン バシュラール, ガストン・バシュラール

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Born in Bar-sur-Aube, France, in 1884, Gaston Bachelard received his doctorate in 1927. He became professor of philosophy at the University of Dijon in 1930, and held the chair in the history and philosophy of science at the University of Paris from 1940 to 1954. In epistemology and the philosophy of science, Bachelard espoused a dialectical rationalism, or dialogue between reason and experience. He rejected the Cartesian conception of scientific truths as immutable; he insisted on experiment as well as mathematics in the development of science. Bachelard described the cooperation between the two as a philosophy of saying no, of being ever ready to revise or abandon the established framework of scientific theory to express the new discoveries. In addition to his contributions to the epistemological foundations of science, Bachelard explored the role of reverie and emotion in the expressions of both science and more imaginative thinking. His psychological explanations of the four elements-earth, air, fire, water-illustrate this almost poetic aspect of his philosophy. (Bowker Author Biography)
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The Poetics of Space 2,237 copies, 18 reviews
The Psychoanalysis of Fire (Author) 370 copies, 4 reviews
The Poetics of Reverie: Childhood, Language, and the Cosmos 274 copies, 2 reviews
Water and Dreams: An Essay on the Imagination of Matter (Bachelard… 188 copies, 3 reviews
Air and Dreams: An Essay on the Imagination of Movement (Bachelard… 145 copies
The Formation of the Scientific Mind 132 copies, 3 reviews
The New Scientific Spirit 120 copies, 3 reviews
La flamme d’une chandelle 99 copies, 2 reviews
Intuition of the Instant 85 copies, 2 reviews
On Poetic Imagination and Reverie: Selections from Gaston Bachelard 75 copies
The Right to Dream (Bachelard Translation Series) 72 copies, 2 reviews
The Philosophy of No: A Philosophy of the New Scientific Mind 63 copies, 1 review
Earth and Reveries of Will: An Essay on the Imagination of Matter… 63 copies, 1 review
Earth and Reveries of Repose: An Essay on Images of Interiority 48 copies
Dialectic of Duration (Philosophy of Science) 44 copies, 1 review
Lautréamont 42 copies
Épistémologie 36 copies, 2 reviews
Fragments of a Poetics of Fire (Bachelard Translation Series) 30 copies
Drawings for the Bible 27 copies
Le Rationalisme appliqué 26 copies, 1 review
Essai sur la connaissance approchée 18 copies, 1 review
Le matérialisme rationnel 16 copies, 1 review
Études 13 copies
L'activité rationaliste de la physique contemporaine. 11 copies, 1 review
Compromiso racionalista (Spanish Edition) 8 copies, 1 review
Marc Chagall: Drawings for the Bible 8 copies
A Filosofia do Não / O Novo Espírito Científico / A Poética do Espaço 7 copies
L'expérience de l'espace dans la physique contemporaine 6 copies, 1 review
Pluralismo Coerente Da Quimica Moderna, O 6 copies, 1 review
L'intuizione dell'istante: La psicoanalisi del fuoco 5 copies
Les intuitions atomistiques: essai de classification 4 copies, 1 review
La ragione scientifica 4 copies
La valeur inductive de la relativité 3 copies
La poetica della rêverie 3 copies
Metafisica della matematica 3 copies
Images imaginees: 12 photographes contemporains et la pensee de Gaston… 3 copies
O Novo espírito científico ; A poética do… 2 copies
Einstein e i filosofi (Author) 2 copies
L'évolution d'un problème de physique: la propagation thermique dans les… 2 copies, 1 review
Os Pensadores: Bachelard 2 copies
Filosofia do novo espirito cientifico 2 copies
Over het interieur 2 copies
大地と意志の夢想 1 copy
Le rationalisme appliqué, extraits 1 copy
大地と休息の夢想 1 copy
Bachelard 1 copy
Studi di filosofia della scienza 1 copy
O SURRACIONALISMO 1 copy
SeÇmeler 1 copy
Il mondo come capriccio e miniatura (volume V) 1 copy
Bachelard {Estudos} 1 copy
Französische Essays der Gegenwart 1 copy
Wyobraźnia poetycka : wybór pism 1 copy
Bachelard, épistémologie, textes choisis 1 copy
Études 1 copy
LA CONTINUITÉ ET LA MULTIPLICITÉ TEMPORELLES 1 copy
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Critical Theory Since Plato (Contributor, some editions) 365 copies
Soul: An Archaeology--Readings from Socrates to Ray Charles (Contributor) 87 copies
Histoire de la campagne française (Afterword, some editions) 19 copies, 1 review
The Analog Sea Review: Number Three (Contributor) 4 copies
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Canonical name
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Bachelard, Gaston Louis Pierre
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Date of birth
1884-06-27
Date of death
1962-10-16
Burial location
Paris, France
Gender
male
Nationality
France
Country (for map)
Birthplace
Bar-Sur-Aube, France
Place of death
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Paris, Île-de-France, France
Cause of death
Places of residence
Bar-Sur-Aube, France
Dijon, France
Paris, France
Education
Sorbonne
Occupations
postmaster
professor (physics, philosophy)
Relationships
Bachelard, Suzanne (daughter)
Atlan, Liliane (student)
Organizations
Sorbonne (Chair in History and Philosophy of Science)
University of Dijon
Académie des Sciences Morales et Politiques
Awards and honors
Grand Prix national des lettres (1961)
Agents
Thomas S. Kuhn
Alexandre Koyre
Michel Foucault
Georges Canguilhem (successor at the Sorbonne)
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A founding figure in historically-oriented philosophy of science. Viewed science as a struggle against ideological obstacles, and benefiting from reverie and imagination as much as from Reason. Many Americans first discovered Bachelard's work behind the famous "paradigm shifts" described by Thomas S. Kuhn. Bachelard described the products of science and imagination as epistemological structures -- "all is constructed" -- and the shifts from one answer to another as "ruptures". Alexander Koyre interpreted these as "shifts".
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