Bachelard, Gaston(1884–1962)
Gaston Bachelard, the French epistemologist and philosopher of science, was born at Bar-sur-Aube. He was a postal employee until 1913, when he gained his licence in...
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Gaston Bachelard occupies a pivotal position in twentieth-century French intellectual life. His works and reputation span the two fields that, in modern European culture, are generally considered anti...
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In the following essay, Christofides attempts to define Bachelard's esthetic, calling it “a fruitful theoretical statement that has affinities with Symbolist, Surrealist and Existentiali...
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In the following essay, Higonnet notes the contradictions in Bachelard's ideas about imagination and investigates the influence of Romantic theories on his work.
The coherence of Gaston Bach...
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In the following essay, Kaplan maintains that “Bachelard's special focus on images of ambivalence in Charles Baudelaire's poetry, and their aesthetic resolution of existentially i...
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In the following essay, Bidney applies a Bachelardian “elemental” approach to fire and water images in Matthew Arnold's poetry.
Gaston Bachelard, in his work on the phenomenolo...
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In the following essay, Culler judges Bachelard's overall contribution to science and literary criticism, contending that “the diversity of his accomplishments makes Bachelard difficult ...
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In the following essay, Nakell uses Bachelard's psychoanalytic criticism to interpret the image and its origins, and investigates his concept of reverie.
Well they'd made up their min...
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In the following essay, Johnson applies Bachelard's theories of “felicitous” space to the Appalachian experience, focusing on the work of Jim Wayne Miller's The Mountains H...
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In the following essay, Ehrmann traces the different phases of Bachelard's career.
Before dealing with Bachelard, the literary critic, it seems relevant to recall that he was formerly a phil...
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In the following essay, Grimsley compares the role of the imagination in the philosophy of Jean Paul Sartre and Bachelard.
Whereas any attempt to clarify the relationship between philosophy and lit...
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In the following essay, Forsyth provides an overview of Bachelard's critical approach to the concept of imagination, asserting that his development progressed “from the objectivity of ps...
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In the following essay, Kaplan surveys the major points of Bachelard's writings on imagination.
The academic career of Gaston Bachelard (1884-1962) was devoted to epistemology and the histor...
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In the following essay, Smith examines the relationship between Bachelard's works on science and on the imagination.
A major feature of Gaston Bachelard's epistemological work is his ...
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In the following essay, Smith provides an assessment of Bachelard's contribution to critical discourse.
Usually original, often provocative, Bachelard's quarter century of work on the...
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In the following essay, McAllester evaluates Bachelard's legacy as critic and philosopher.
Bachelard died in October 1962, leaving us a rich and singular legacy: some ninety publications in ...
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In the following essay, Slattery finds parallels between the philosophy of the imagination in Bachelard's Water and Dreams and Ivan Illich's H2O and the Waters of Forgetfulness.
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Bachelard, Gaston (1884–1962)
Gaston Bachelard
Critical Essay by C. G. Christofides
