Gaston Bachelard
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English
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An English translation of Bachelard's sixth book, in which he seeks to develop a metaphysical context for modern atomistic science.
French philosopher Gaston Bachelard (1884–1962) is best known in the English-speaking world for his work on poetics and the literary imagination, but much of his oeuvre is devoted to epistemology and the philosophy of science. Like Thomas Kuhn, whose work he anticipates by three decades, Bachelard examines the revolution...
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Español
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Gaston Bachelard es un filósofo francés de la ciencia, la poesía, la educación y el tiempo. Es uno de los principales representantes de la escuela francesa de epistemología histórica. Reconocido epistemólogo, exploró los caminos inesperados de los grandes descubrimientos científicos en física y química de finales del siglo XIX y principios del XX. Bachelard renueva el enfoque filosófico y literario de la imaginación, desde la perspectiva...
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2014
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English
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A beloved multidisciplinary treatise comes to Penguin Classics
Since its initial publication in 1958, The Poetics of Space has been a muse to philosophers, architects, writers, psychologists, critics, and readers alike. The rare work of irresistibly inviting philosophy, Bachelard’s seminal work brims with quiet revelations and stirring, mysterious imagery. This lyrical journey takes as its premise the emergence of...
Since its initial publication in 1958, The Poetics of Space has been a muse to philosophers, architects, writers, psychologists, critics, and readers alike. The rare work of irresistibly inviting philosophy, Bachelard’s seminal work brims with quiet revelations and stirring, mysterious imagery. This lyrical journey takes as its premise the emergence of...
6) Lautréamont
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Dallas Institute Publications, Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture
Pub. Date
c1986
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English
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Collection "A la pensée" volume 10
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Presses universitaires de France
Pub. Date
1970
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Français
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Beacon Press
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©1984
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English
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In this book, Bachelard draws upon both his scientific training and his interest in the nonrational - which ultimately drew him toward the study of poetics - to explore the deeper meanings of the new physics. In Bachelard's view, the unpredictable behaviour of subatomic particles belies the seemingly neat, ordered, and mechanistic universe that the practical and empirical scientists of the nineteenth century thought they saw.
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MIT Press
Pub. Date
2021
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English
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A new translation of the final work of French philosopher Jean Cavaillès.
In this short, dense essay, Jean Cavaillès evaluates philosophical efforts to determine the origin—logical or ontological—of scientific thought, arguing that, rather than seeking to found science in original intentional acts, a priori meanings, or foundational logical relations, any adequate theory must involve a history of the concept.
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