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
destinies future opens poetic poetry
Poetry is one of the destinies of speech. . . . One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language.
miscellaneous resisting
We understand nature by resisting it.
causality poetic
The poetic image exists apart from causality.