Gaston Bachelard





Gaston Bachelard

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born
in France
June 27, 1884

died
October 16, 1962

gender
male

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About this author

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: 4.19 · 3,434 ratings · 197 reviews · 39 distinct works · Similar authors
The Poetics of Space
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4.2 of 5 stars 4.20 avg rating — 2,674 ratings — published 1957 — 18 editions
The Psychoanalysis of Fire
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4.03 of 5 stars 4.03 avg rating — 188 ratings — published 1937 — 16 editions
The Poetics of Reverie
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4.28 of 5 stars 4.28 avg rating — 166 ratings — published 1960 — 10 editions
Water and Dreams: An Essay ...
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4.3 of 5 stars 4.30 avg rating — 105 ratings — published 1942 — 10 editions
Air and Dreams: An Essay on...
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4.29 of 5 stars 4.29 avg rating — 52 ratings — published 1943 — 6 editions
Formation of the Scientific...
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4.17 of 5 stars 4.17 avg rating — 36 ratings — published 1948 — 9 editions
On Poetic Imagination and R...
4.57 of 5 stars 4.57 avg rating — 23 ratings — published 1988
The Flame of a Candle
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3.8 of 5 stars 3.80 avg rating — 46 ratings — published 1961 — 16 editions
Earth And Reveries Of Will:...
4.36 of 5 stars 4.36 avg rating — 22 ratings — published 1948 — 6 editions
Lautréamont
4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 1992 — 4 editions
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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