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Gaston Bachelard was a French philosopher and writer who explored how imagination, dreams, and everyday objects shape the way we understand and experience the world. His ideas remain influential in fields ranging from literary criticism to psychology because he showed that poetry and creative thinking are just as important as science for understanding human experience.
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- male
- Citizenship
- France
- Place of birth
- Bar-sur-Aube
- Place of death
- 9th arrondissement of Paris
- Child
- Suzanne Bachelard
- Position held
- university teacher
- Languages spoken
- French
- Doctoral advisor
- Abel Rey
- Student of
- Abel Rey
- Field of work
- aesthetics
- Movement
- historical epistemology
- Conflict
- World War I
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- date of birth
- 1884-06-27
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- 1962-10-16
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- Carl Jung
- nominated for
- Nobel Prize in Literature
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- Gaston Bachelard
- student
- Alejandro Jodorowsky
- writing language
- French
- IPA transcription
- [baʃlaʁ]
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- Bar-sur-Aube
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Encyclopedic overview
Gaston Louis Pierre Bachelard (/bæʃəˈlɑːr/; French: [baʃlaʁ]; 27 June 1884 – 16 October 1962) was a French philosopher. 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.
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