Gaston Bachelard





Gaston Bachelard

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born
June 27, 1884 in France

died
October 16, 1962

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Gaston Bachelard was a French philosopher who rose to some of the most prestigious positions in the French academy. His most important work is on poetics and on the philosophy of science. To the latter he introduced the concepts of epistemological obstacle and epistemological break (obstacle épistémologique et rupture épistémologique). He influenced many subsequent French philosophers, among them Michel Foucault and Louis Althusser.


Average rating: 4.17 · 2,121 ratings · 152 reviews · 33 distinct works
The Poetics of Space
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4.19 of 5 stars 4.19 avg rating — 1,662 ratings — published 1958 — 16 editions
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Psychoanalysis of Fire
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The Poetics of Reverie
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Water and Dreams: An Essay ...
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Formation of the Scientific...
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On Poetic Imagination and R...
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The Flame of a Candle (Bach...
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3.75 of 5 stars 3.75 avg rating — 28 ratings — published 1961 — 15 editions
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Lautreamont
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Earth And Reveries Of Will:...
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More books by Gaston Bachelard…
“To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful,
ready always to apprehend in the flow of language the sudden flash of poetry.”
Gaston Bachelard

“I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.”
Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space

“Rilke wrote: 'These trees are magnificent, but even more magnificent is the sublime and moving space between them, as though with their growth it too increased.”
Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space

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