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 antitheses: poetics and science. In each of these fields...

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 mathematics and science and became a teacher of...

Gaston Bachelard (June 27, 1884 – October 16, 1962) 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 the philosophy of science. In philosophy of science he...

(Translated from the French by Bernd Jager, Universite du Quebec at Montreal) ABSTRACT Natural scientific psychology grew out of an effort to objectify language. The ultimate effect of its methodological innovations was to distance the reader from a primordial poetic experience...

Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Philosophy. New York: Routledge, 2001. xi + 285 pp. Cloth, $100.00--In the introduction to her book Professor Chimisso gives two reasons for writing it (pp. 7-9). The first is to show how Bachelard's work is inextricably situated in the...

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 psychoanalysis to the subjectivity of phenomenology.”

In the following essay, Kaplan surveys the major points of Bachelard's writings on imagination.

In the following essay, Higonnet notes the contradictions in Bachelard's ideas about imagination and investigates the influence of Romantic theories on his work.