Gaston Bachelard

Philosopher, Author

1884 – 1962

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Who was Gaston Bachelard?

Gaston Bachelard 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. He rose to some of the most prestigious positions in the Académie française and influenced many subsequent French philosophers, among them Michel Foucault, Louis Althusser, Dominique Lecourt and Jacques Derrida.

Famous Quotes:

  • It is not a question of observation which propels mankind forward as if toward a looking glass of great magnitude; it is an instance of aggrandized reflection that insinuates the human psyche to the inhuman.
  • It is the pen which dreams.
  • All knowledge is in response to a question. If there were no question, there would be no scientific knowledge. Nothing proceeds from itself.
  • A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.
  • There is no original truth, only original error.
  • Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.
  • Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books.
  • Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.
  • Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls.
  • To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in the flow of language the sudden flash of poetry.

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Born
Jun 27, 1884
Bar-sur-Aube
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Nationality
  • France
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Education
  • University of Paris
Died
Oct 16, 1962
Paris

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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