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		Bachelard’s anti-positivist philosophy of science was developed in a number of texts between 1927 and 1953, anticipating some of the conclusions of Thomas Kuhn, though he was not to exert any direct influence on Anglo-Saxon philosophy of science.
		Bachelard then uncovers the ‘unthought’ of philosophical discourse about science in a ‘recovering’, which also opens up the notions of the ‘unconscious’ and the ‘unthought’ and the further possibility of the ‘recovery’ of these by a ‘psycho-analysis of reason’.
		Lecourt, Dominique (1975) Marxism and Epistemology: Bachelard, Canguilhelm, Foucault.
	www.vusst.hr /ENCYCLOPAEDIA/bacherlad.htm (1404 words)

	Gaston Bachelard - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Gaston Bachelard (June 27, 1884 – October 16, 1962) was a French philosopher and poet who rose to some of the most prestigious positions in the French academy despite his humble origins.
		Bachelard's studies of the history and philosophy of science in such works as Le nouvel esprit scientifique ("The New Scientific Mind") (1934) and La formation de l'esprit scientifique ("The Formation of the Scientific Mind")(1938) were based on his vision of historical epistemology as a kind of psychoanalysis of the scientific mind.
		Bachelard's work is often perceived as dealing with many diverse topics such as poetry, dreams, psychoanalysis, and the imagination, rather than the single topic of epistemology.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gaston_Bachelard (558 words)

	Michael J.'s Notio: Gaston Bachelard: Subversive Humanist
		Gaston Bachelard was a postal clerk who eventually rose to teach at the Sorbonne.
		I understand Bachelard primarily through the vectors of phenomenology, the rehabilitation of imagination, poetics, and especially reverie, even though his oeuvre is grounded in epistemology and the history of scientific thought.
		What [Bachelard] brings to it is an attitude of mind, a willingness to accept and not reduce complexity, to take reading a poem seriously, as an aspect of our relationship with something other than ourselves.
	www.notio.com /2006/02/gaston_bachelar.html (953 words)

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		Gaston Bachelard: Critic of Science and the Imagination by Cristina Chimisso (Routledge Studies in Twentieth Century Philosophy: Routledge) In this new study, Cristina Chimisso explores the work of the French philosopher of science Gaston Bachelard (1884-1962) by situating it within French cultural life during the first half of the century.
		Bachelard developed this approach in a direction which led him to a complex compromise between two traditions, one being that of philological accuracy and the other that of a historical philosophy.
		Bachelard's historiography is by no means separated from his epistemology, for the problems which he wanted to solve did not allow for a clear distinction between the two.
	www.wordtrade.com /philosophy/french/bachelard.htm (2646 words)

	Bachelard, Gaston. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		Bachelard regarded knowing as a result of the interaction between reason and experience.
		Bachelard argued that new scientific knowledge may lead to a fundamental reformulation of reality, just as the preexisting formulation of reality that the observer imposed on the natural world may have predisposed him to entertain some hypotheses but not others.
		Bachelard was not, despite his scientific orientation, a thorough-going rationalist; he considered imagination and reverie as well as reason to be creative forces in knowing.
	www.bartleby.com /65/ba/Bachelar.html (242 words)

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		Indeed, in a rereading of Bachelard today, it is the interrelationship between science and poetry, experiment and experience, that seems to have the most radical potential, while his well-known vision of the oneiric house, with its rather nostalgic and essentialist world view, comes across as historically dated.
		In his own time, Bachelard (1884–1962) was a remarkable intellectual figure, reputedly a reader of six books a day, and author of twenty-three at the time of his death, not counting his scores of essays, prefaces, and posthumous fragments.
		As Bachelard acknowledged in The Psychoanalysis of Fire, “The axes of poetry and of science are opposed to one another from the outset.
	www.gsd.harvard.edu /research/publications/hdm/back/6books_ockman.html (1948 words)

	J. Samuel Bois on Bachelard - Philosphere Publishers - Bohm, Bois, LLWhyte,Korzybski, Teilhard de Chardin, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Gaston Bachelard, the French philosopher/scientist/poet, was a whole man. One whom I believe will prove to be of enormous influence as the years and times change.
		Bachelard, like Lancelot Law Whyte, one of our other authors, said, 'The mind at work is a factor of evolution.' Also like Whyte, he exhibited and admitted doubt and ambiguity in his generalizations, but showed strength of conviction in proposing his postulates.
		The profile as Bachelard originally presented it was a claim that the evolution of human thinking about itself and the world in which we live goes through five phases.
	www.philosphere.com /article28.html?128608c3ac600d599bef713c972b706e=66e04193e5a54a0946ddbd47ae051be1 (1341 words)

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		Gaston Bachelard is one of the indispensable figures in the history of 20th-century ideas.
		In this work, he first elaborated a theory of knowledge and its development, which was to become a key to his thought as a whole—the notion of "the epistemological obstacle"—the unavoidable presence in the mind of a thinking individual of preconceived and misleading ideas derived from the very nature of language and culture.
		Gaston Bachelard was one of the most famous philosophers of the French 20th century.
	www.ipgbook.com /showbook.cfm?bookid=1903083230&userid=38588384 (127 words)

	Daydreams Class: Writers on the Net (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Bachelard wrote stunning essays concerning the "Poetics of Space" and firmly believed that imagination and reverie were as important to knowing as reason.
		Bachelard also believed in the science of phenomenology: the study of phenomena, of the way things are perceived, opposed to the way things actually are.
		Bachelard explains how the state of daydream differs from nocturnal dreaming, both in the fact that the psychology of daydreaming is one of "wakefulness" and that the contents, as well as the experience, of a daydream explore different realms than the realms of nighttime dreaming.
	www.public.asu.edu /~bhaynes/writerNet.html (650 words)

	UW Press - : Gaston Bachelard, Subversive Humanist: Texts and Readings, Mary McAllester Jones
		Gaston Bachelard, who died in 1962, left us twelve works on the philosophy of science, nine on the poetic imagination, and two on time and consciousness, written in an image-laden style that rejected traditional academic discourse in favor of a subversive, allusive, highly metaphorical way of thinking and writing.
		Gaston Bachelard, Subversive Humanist gives us a generous introduction to Bachelard's brilliant and idiosyncratic writings about the relation of science, poetry, and human consciousness.
		The matrix of Bachelard's thought is twentieth-century science, the "new scientific mind" that he dates from 1905 and Einstein's special theory of relativity.
	www.wisc.edu /wisconsinpress/books/0280.htm (429 words)

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		When Gaston Bachelard's Psychoanalysis of Fire was published in 1938, philosophers of science were shocked (Bachelard, 1968).
		Bachelard's critique of Cartesianism and the subjectivity/objectivity dichotomy
		Bachelard's material images of the spaces we are and the spaces we live lead us in what he calls ontological ways (ibid., p.
	www.arch.ksu.edu /seamon/Bachelard.htm (1210 words)

	Gaston Bachelard - Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Bachelard, Gaston (1894–1962) A founding figure in the historically oriented French tradition in philosophy of science, Bachelard was also concerned with the characteristics of creative thought in the arts.
		On the contrary, science passes through sharp ruptures or breaks in its history, each new practice of science requiring the abandonment of previous epistemologies.
		Bachelard's work was important in shaping the ideas of many French intellectuals of a younger generation, most notably Louis Althusser and Michel Foucault.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1O88-BachelardGaston.html (425 words)

	Gaston Bachelard Biography and Summary
		Gaston Bachelard occupies a pivotal position in twentieth-century French intellectual life.
		Bachelard, Gaston(1884–1962) Gaston Bachelard, the French epistemologist and philosopher of science, was born at Bar-sur-Aube.
		Gaston Bachelard(June 27, 1884 – October 16, 1962) was a French philosopher and poet who rose to some of the most prestigious positions in the French academy despite his humble origins.
	www.bookrags.com /Gaston_Bachelard (220 words)

	AllRefer.com - Gaston Bachelard (Philosophy, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Bachelard regarded knowing as a result of the interaction between reason and experience.
		Bachelard argued that new scientific knowledge may lead to a fundamental reformulation of reality, just as the preexisting formulation of reality that the observer imposed on the natural world may have predisposed him to entertain some hypotheses but not others.
		Bachelard was not, despite his scientific orientation, a thorough-going rationalist; he considered imagination and reverie as well as reason to be creative forces in knowing.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/B/Bachelar.html (298 words)

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		Bachelard, in his dissertation titled, Poetics of Space, is interested in the major contributors of perceived intimacy on human development.
		Bachelard’s psychoanalytic training shines true as he explains the impressions that a home leaves on a child throughout life.
		Daydreams, according to Bachelard, are in a remote region where "memory and imagination remain associated." Even after moving from one house to the next, imprints of the first house remain in what he calls the Motionless Childhood.
	www.bsu.edu /World2000/research/zabel/427_Bachelard_summary.htm (1042 words)

	Amazon.ca: The Poetics of Space: Books: Gaston Bachelard (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		As he does with other such observations, Bachelard extends his observation regarding the directionality of different staircases into a discussion of how the attic and basement hold different roles in our daily and imaginary lives.
		Gaston Bachelard unleashes our imaginations as he helps us to explore these feelings with an journey through our house - a sacred place that holds dear to most of us, a place that we grew up, a place that is full of memories both from our childhood and our present existence.
		For example, Bachelard presents poetic interpretations of enclosures, inside/outside, and other spatial phenomemon while applying it to such entities as the nest, the shell, the corner, the drawer, etc. A work to savor, slowly.
	www.amazon.ca /Poetics-Space-Gaston-Bachelard/dp/0807064734 (993 words)

	Gaston Bachelard: The Hand of Work and Play
		One of the aspects of Bachelard that I most appreciate is his acceptance of human anger not as a liability but often as a spur to action.
		Bachelard honors the entire spectrum of what it means to be a human, foibles and all.
		Bachelard is sometimes criticized, and I would agree, for using poetry out of context as examples merely to prove his thoughts about images.
	www.dallasinstitute.org /Programs/Previous/FALL98/TALKTEXT/joanneb.htm (3131 words)

	Gaston Bachelard - Philosphere Publishers - Bohm, Bois, LLWhyte,Korzybski, Teilhard de Chardin, Bachelard,Tomkins (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Gaston Bachelard was one of the most significant modern thinkers-dreamers of France.
		One of the amphitheatres of the Sorbonne is called 'l'amphi Gaston Bachelard,' an honour Bachelard shared with Descartes and Richelieu.
		Bachelard's notion of the "epistemological break" is probably what is best known and most widely quoted from his work.' (Gaston Bachelard: Subversive Humanist, Mary McAllester Jones, The University of Wisconsin Press, 1991, p.5) In 1940, in his book The Philosophy of No, Bachelard wrote about the work of Alfred Korzybski (see above).
	www.philosphere.com /article27.html?&MMN_position=29:2 (713 words)

	Gaston Bachelard (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Bachelard was a postmaster (see mail (mail: The bags of letters and packages that are transported by the postal service)) in Bar-Sur-Aube (Bar-Sur-Aube: bar-sur-aube is a commune of france, located in the aube département, of...
		Bachelard's studies of the history and philosophy of science in such works as Le nouvel esprit scientifique and La formation de l'esprit scientifique was based on his vision of historical epistemology as a kind of psychoanalysis of the scientific mind.
		His works on The Psychoanalysis of Fire and The Poetics of Space are among the most popular of his works in English (English: An Indo-European language belonging to the West Germanic branch; the official language of Britain and the United States and most of the Commonwealth countries).
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /reference/gaston_bachelard (352 words)

	Publisher description for Library of Congress control number 84005001 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		This is the first critically evaluative study of Gaston Bachelard's philosophy of science to be written in English.
		Bachelard's professional reputation was based on his philosophy of science, though that aspect of his thought has tended to be neglected by his English-speaking readers.
		Bachelard emphasised discontinuities in the history of science; in particular he stressed the new ways of thinking about and investigating the world to be found in modern science.
	www.loc.gov /catdir/description/cam022/84005001.html (227 words)

	Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": "Surrationally Yours" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		It is not very informative about surrationalism per se except to call it open rationalism, although the book does go into some detail on Bachelard's theory of images, alchemy, and the poetic imagination, as well as the relationship between Bachelard and Breton, the founder of surrealism.
		However, on my own I managed to make some sense out of Bachelard's "Surrationalism" article, which is difficult to understand because it is highly metaphorical and more suggestive than explicit, but reading between the lines one can make sense out of it.
		I think Bachelard was on to something, although in a highly metaphorical (though not obscurantist!) and anticipatory way.
	www.autodidactproject.org /my/bachsur2.html (646 words)

	Amazon.ca: Psychoanalysis of Fire: Books: Gaston Bachelard (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Watch Bachelard circle and destroy modern rationality through a proto-rationalistic, Socratic assault on the concept of fire.
		Bachelard's subject is the 'concept' rather than the real thing, fire itself, the number one immaterial 'substance' prefiguring even light.
		In the "Psychoanalysis of Fire" Bachelard turns his sciento-phenomonologist methods of analysis to the existence of fire, both as a real presence throughout the history of mankind and as a literary, symbolic presence with perhaps even more significance.
	www.amazon.ca /Psychoanalysis-Fire-Gaston-Bachelard/dp/0807064610 (488 words)

	Bublos.com, Books ›› The Poetics of Space, by Gaston Bachelard (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		As he does with other such observations, Bachelard extends his observation regarding the directionality of different staircases into a discussion of how the attic and basement hold different roles in our daily and imaginary lives.
		Bachelard apples their methods to architecture, basing his analysis not on purported origins (as was the trend in Enlightenment thinking about architecture) but on lived experience of architecture.
		Bachelard is an exceptionally acute writer of such descriptions.
	www.bublos.com /isbn/0807064734.html (1047 words)

	Toward the end of The Poetics of Space, Gaston Bachelard offers a textual-critical view of Balzac's revision of a ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Bachelard explains that what Balzac seems to intend is a definition of "determined opposition in the face of affronted space":
		Bachelard notices a "decline of power" between the earlier version and its revision, a compression that loses depth and impact.
		Bachelard explores and criticizes Balzac's decision to edit language in a way that devalues the true subject: opposition in the face of affronted space.
	english.ttu.edu /kairos/5.1/news/metaconversations/bachelard.html (310 words)

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