Gaston Bachelard
Gaston Bachelard
Gaston Bachelardwas 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 influenced many subsequent French philosophers, among them Michel Foucault, Louis Althusser, Dominique Lecourt and Jacques Derrida, as well as the sociologist Pierre Bourdieu...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionPhilosopher
Date of Birth27 June 1884
CountryFrance
names vocabulary psychology
The psychology of the alchemist is that of reveries trying to constitute themselves in experiments on the exterior world. A double vocabulary must be established between reverie and experiment. The exaltation of the names of substances is the preamble to experiments on the "exalted" substances.
childhood germs excess
An excess of childhood is the germ of a poem.
miscellaneous resisting
We understand nature by resisting it.
philosophy two half
Two half philosophers will probably never a whole metaphysician make.
individuality age force
In our life as a civilized person in the industrial age, we are invaded by objects; how could an object have a "force" when it no longer has individuality?
dream rivers water
Dreaming by the river, I dedicated my imagination to water, to clear, green water, the water that makes the meadows green.
memories comfort protection
We comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection
names solitude historical
There are reveries so deep, reveries which help us descend so deeply within ourselves that they rid us of our history. They liberate us from our name. These solitudes of today return us to the original solitudes.
world
The cleverer I am at miniaturizing the world, the better I possess it.
philosophy past preparation
The philosophy of poetry must acknowledge that the poetic act has no past, at least no recent past, in which its preparation and appearance could be followed.
poetic surface
The poetic image is a sudden salience on the surface of the psyche
causality poetic
The poetic image exists apart from causality.
dream memories awakening
True poetry is a function of awakening. It awakens us, but it must retain the memory of previous dreams.
dream giving function
The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams.