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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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Works by Gaston Bachelard
The Poetics of Space 2,168 copies, 19 reviews
The Psychoanalysis of Fire (Author) 352 copies, 4 reviews
The Poetics of Reverie: Childhood, Language, and the Cosmos 267 copies, 2 reviews
Water and Dreams: An Essay on the Imagination of Matter (Bachelard… 183 copies, 2 reviews
Air and Dreams: An Essay on the Imagination of Movement (Bachelard… 137 copies
The Formation of the Scientific Mind 124 copies, 3 reviews
The New Scientific Spirit 112 copies, 3 reviews
La flamme d’une chandelle 94 copies, 2 reviews
Intuition of the Instant 83 copies, 2 reviews
On Poetic Imagination and Reverie: Selections from Gaston Bachelard 73 copies
The Right to Dream (Bachelard Translation Series) 70 copies, 2 reviews
Earth and Reveries of Will: An Essay on the Imagination of Matter… 63 copies, 1 review
The Philosophy of No: A Philosophy of the New Scientific Mind 59 copies, 1 review
Earth and Reveries of Repose: An Essay on Images of Interiority 44 copies
Dialectic of Duration (Philosophy of Science) 43 copies, 1 review
Lautréamont 41 copies
Épistémologie 32 copies, 2 reviews
Fragments of a Poetics of Fire (Bachelard Translation Series) 28 copies
Le Rationalisme appliqué 24 copies, 1 review
Essai sur la connaissance approchée 16 copies, 1 review
Le matérialisme rationnel 14 copies, 1 review
Études 12 copies
La valeur inductive de la relativité 12 copies, 1 review
Marc Chagall: Drawings for the Bible 7 copies
El compromiso racionalista 6 copies, 1 review
L'expérience de l'espace dans la physique contemporaine 5 copies, 1 review
La ragione scientifica 4 copies
Le pluralisme cohérent de la chimie moderne 4 copies, 1 review
Images imaginees: 12 photographes contemporains et la pensee de Gaston… 3 copies
Les intuitions atomistiques 3 copies, 1 review
The Poetics of Space by Gaston Bachelard | Summary &Study Guide 3 copies
Metafisica della matematica 3 copies
Mekanın poetikası 3 copies
L'activité rationaliste de la physique contemporaine 2 copies
Jorden och drömmerier om vila 2 copies
Over het interieur 2 copies
Epistemología (Argumentos) (Spanish Edition) 2 copies
O Novo espírito científico ; A poética do… 2 copies
Filosofia do novo espirito cientifico 2 copies
La formación del espíritu científico 2 copies
Pluralismo Coerente Da Quimica Moderna, O 2 copies
La filosofía del no : ensayo de una filosofía del nuevo espíritu… 2 copies
Einstein e i filosofi (Author) 2 copies
Płomień świecy 2 copies
L'impegno razionalista 1 copy
La terre et les rêveries du repos Essai sur les images de… 1 copy
O Novo Espírito Científico 1 copy
L'évolution d'un problème de physique: la propagation thermique dans les… 1 copy
La psychannalyse du feu 1 copy
Os Pensadores 1 copy
La tierra y las ensoñaciones del reposo 1 copy
LA PSYCHANALYSE DU FEU n 73 1 copy
O NOVO ESPÍRITO CIENTÍFICO 1 copy
Bachelard - A Filosofia do Não; O Novo Espírito Científico; A Poética… 1 copy
Racionalni materijalizam 1 copy
A Formação do Espírito Científico 1 copy
Psicoanálisis del fuego 1 copy
Le matérialisme rationnel 1 copy
Bachelard 1 copy
Drawings for the Bible By Marc Chagall 1 copy
La philosophie du non, essai d'une philosophie du nouvel esprit… 1 copy
O SURRACIONALISMO 1 copy
Os Pensadores: Bachelard 1 copy
Experiencia do Espaco na Fisica Conteporanea, A 1 copy
Französische Essays der Gegenwart 1 copy
Wyobraźnia poetycka : wybór pism 1 copy
Bachelard {Estudos} 1 copy
Il mondo come capriccio e miniatura (volume V) 1 copy
Gaston Bachelard,... Essai sur la connaissance approchée : . 2de… 1 copy
Studi di filosofia della scienza 1 copy
Le rationalisme appliqué, extraits 1 copy
Études 1 copy
Poetica del fuoco: frammenti di un lavoro incompiuto 1 copy
Yeni Bilimsel Tin 1 copy
La philosophie du non. Essai d'une philosophie du nouvel esprit… 1 copy
Etude sur l'évolution d'un problème de physique.… 1 copy, 1 review
SeÇmeler 1 copy
Uygulamali Akilcilik 1 copy
Bachelard, épistémologie, textes choisis 1 copy
Mumun Alevi 1 copy
i poiitiki tou chorou / η ποιητική… 1 copy
LA CONTINUITÉ ET LA MULTIPLICITÉ TEMPORELLES 1 copy
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Critical Theory Since Plato (Contributor, some editions) 351 copies
Soul: An Archaeology--Readings from Socrates to Ray Charles (Contributor) 85 copies
Histoire de la campagne française (Afterword, some editions) 18 copies, 1 review
The Analog Sea Review: Number Three (Contributor) 4 copies
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Canonical name
Legal name
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)
Short biography
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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