Gaston Bachelard

Gaston Bachelard
Born(1884-06-27)27 June 1884
Bar-sur-Aube, France
Died16 October 1962(1962-10-16) (aged 78)
Paris, France
EducationUniversity of Paris
(B.A., 1920;[6] D.-ès-Lettres, 1927)
Era20th-century philosophy
RegionWestern philosophy
SchoolContinental philosophy[1]
French historical epistemology[2]
InstitutionsUniversity of Dijon[3]
University of Paris
Doctoral advisorAbel Rey
Léon Brunschvicg
Main interests
Historical epistemology
constructivist epistemology, history and philosophy of science, philosophy of art, phenomenology, psychoanalysis, literary theory, education
Notable ideas
Epistemological break, the poetics of space, rational materialism, technoscience
(techno-science)[4][5]
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Gaston Bachelard (/bæʃəˈlɑːr/; French: [baʃlaʁ]; 27 June 1884 – 16 October 1962) was a French philosopher.[11] He made contributions in the fields of poetics and the philosophy of science. To the latter, he introduced the concepts of epistemological obstacle and epistemological break (obstacle épistémologique and rupture épistémologique). He influenced many subsequent French philosophers, among them Michel Foucault, Louis Althusser, Dominique Lecourt and Jacques Derrida, as well as the sociologists Pierre Bourdieu and Bruno Latour.

For Bachelard, the scientific object should be constructed and therefore different from the positivist sciences; in other words, information is in continuous construction. Empiricism and rationalism are not regarded as dualism or opposition but complementary, therefore studies of a priori and a posteriori, or in other words reason and dialectic, are part of scientific research.[12]

  1. ^ Mullarkey, John and Lord, Beth eds. (2009). The Continuum Companion to Continental Philosophy. London: Continuum. p. 211. ISBN 0826498302
  2. ^ Reck, E. ed. (2016) The Historical Turn in Analytic Philosophy. Springer. Ch. 2.1. ISBN 978-0230201538
  3. ^ Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy (1998): "Bachelard, Gaston (1884-1962)".
  4. ^ A term for the combination of technology and science as disciplines coined in 1953 by Bachelard; see: Bachelard, Gaston (1953) La materialisme rationel. Paris: PUF
  5. ^ Ihde, Don (1999) Expanding Hermeneutics: Visualism in Science, Northwestern University Press. p. 8. ISBN 0810116065
  6. ^ Chimisso, Cristina (2013) Gaston Bachelard: Critic of Science and the Imagination. Routledge. p. 51. ISBN 9781136453885
  7. ^ Dauben, Joseph W. and Scriba, Christoph J. eds. (2002) Writing the History of Mathematics – Its Historical Development. Birkhaeuser. p. 33. ISBN 978-3764361662
  8. ^ Rizo-Patron, Eileen; Casey, Edward S. and Wirth, Jason M. eds. (2017) Adventures in Phenomenology: Gaston Bachelard, SUNY Press. p. 123 n. 11. ISBN 9781438466057
  9. ^ Dosse, François (2014). Castoriadis. Une vie. Paris: La Découverte. pp. 43–4.
  10. ^ Serres, M. (1970) "La réforme et les sept péchés," L'Arc, 42, Bachelard special issue.
  11. ^ Biographical Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Philosophers. London: Routledge. 1996. pp. 41–42. ISBN 0-415-06043-5.
  12. ^ Lima, Marcos Antonio Martins; Marinelli, Marcos (13 July 2011). "A epistemologia de Gaston Bachelard: uma ruptura com as filosofias do imobilismo". Revista de Ciências Humanas. 45 (2). doi:10.5007/2178-4582.2011v45n2p393.