Gaston bachelard : a philosophy of the surreal
- Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2018
- x, 212 p. ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Gaston Bachelard (1884-1962) was a seminal figure in contemporary French philosophy. Together with Michel Foucault, Georges Canguilhem and Jean Cavaillès, he shaped the 'French epistemological' school of philosophy of science. In France, Bachelard is a towering presence; in the English-speaking world, he is little known. Now, Zbigniew Kotowicz gives us the first English language, in-depth presentation of the entire spectrum of Bachelard's work: epistemology, poetic imagination and temporality. And he explores an old philosophical tradition that Bachelard's thought opens up - atomism - a doctrine that has been almost forgotten and is much misunderstood.
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Against substance French epistemological school Atomism Prejudice Rationalism Pythagorism Narcissism Hylozoism Overcoming pain Masculine death Topophilia