Oeuvres de gaston bachelard biography

Gaston bachelard la poétique de l'espace

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Atomistic Intuitions - An Essay on Classification

Roch C. Smith- Translated and with an introduction by
Daniel Parrochia - Preface

Ed. Suny Press, Octobre 2018

An English translation of the French philosopher’s sixth book, in which he seeks to develop a metaphysical context for modern atomistic science.

French philosopher Gaston Bachelard (1884–1962) is best known in the English-speaking world for his work on poetics and the literary imagination, but much of his oeuvre is devoted to epistemology and the philosophy of science. Like Thomas Kuhn, whose work he anticipates by three decades, Bachelard examines the revolution taking place in scientific thought, but with particular attention to the philosophical implications of scientific practice. Atomistic Intuitions, published in 1933, considers past atomistic doctrines as a context for proposing a metaphysics for the scientific revolutions of the twentieth century. As his subtitle indicates, in this book Bachelard proposes a

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Gaston Bachelard’s Philosophy of Imagination: An Introduction

Intro

The academic career of Gaston Bachelard (1884-1962) was devoted to epistemology and the history and philosophy of science^[1]. A militant rationalist and materialist concerning science, Bachelard also indulged his rich imagination in a series of studies on imagination, from The Psychoanalysis of Fire (1938) to The Poetics of Reverie (1960)^[2].

These essays examine the images of various writers whose works provide the subject matter for Bachelard’s own theorizing on imagination. His working method was one of empathy with the ord, identification with the supposed inner impulses of the writer. Bachelard’s style fryst vatten correspondingly subjective and anställda, with theoretical formulations interspersed with his own play. He often uses technical terminology from literature, phenomenology, metaphysics, esthetics, etc., in a novel way, reinterpreting their accepted meanings in terms of his present perspective.

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Bachelard, Gaston

(b. Bar-sur-Aube, France, 27 June 1884; d. Paris, France, 16 October 1962)

philosophy of science, epistemology.

Bachelard became a philosopher late in life. He had previously taught physics and chemistry in the collège of his native city. His knowledge of physics later enabled him to determine the epistemological change brought about by modern science and, particularly, to gauge the growing distance between it and classical physics, which had suddenly become only relative.