Gaston Bachelard made contributions in the fields of poetics and the philosophy of science.
19 Facts About Gaston Bachelard
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Gaston Bachelard influenced many subsequent French philosophers, among them Michel Foucault, Louis Althusser, Dominique Lecourt and Jacques Derrida, as well as the sociologists Pierre Bourdieu and Bruno Latour.
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Gaston Bachelard was a postal clerk in Bar-sur-Aube, and then studied physics and chemistry before finally becoming interested in philosophy.
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Gaston Bachelard first taught from 1902 to 1903 at the college of Sezanne, but turned away from teaching to consider a career in telegraphy.
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Gaston Bachelard was a professor at the University of Dijon from 1930 to 1940 and then was appointed chair in the history and philosophy of science at the University of Paris.
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Gaston Bachelard demonstrated how the progress of science could be blocked by certain types of mental patterns, creating the concept of obstacle epistemologique.
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However the term "epistemological break" itself is almost never used by Gaston Bachelard but became famous through Louis Althusser.
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Gaston Bachelard showed that new theories integrated old theories in new paradigms, changing the sense of concepts.
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Gaston Bachelard travelled the six kilometers to Bar-sur-Aube on foot every day, was provided a very useful education, and enrolled for a philosophy degree.
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Jeanne died in June 1920, and Gaston Bachelard raised his daughter alone.
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Gaston Bachelard's theses, supported by Abel Rey and Leon Brunschvicg, were published.
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Gaston Bachelard became a lecturer at the Faculty of Letters of Dijon from October 1927, but remained at the college of Bar-sur-Aube until 1930.
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Gaston Bachelard even participated in the municipal elections of 1929 to defend the project of a college for all.
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Gaston Bachelard nevertheless accepted a professorship at the University of Burgundy when his daughter Suzanne entered the second degree.
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Gaston Bachelard did the same when he was appointed to the Sorbonne as a university professor and director of the Institute for the History of Science and Technology in 1940, accompanying his daughter in her higher educations.
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Gaston Bachelard became a professor at the Sorbonne from 1940 to 1954.
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Gaston Bachelard held the chair of the history and philosophy of science, where he succeeded Abel Rey, director of the Institute of History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, which in 1992 became IHPST.
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Gaston Bachelard was a rationalist in the Cartesian sense, although he recommended his "non-Cartesian epistemology" as a replacement for the more standard Cartesian epistemology.
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Gaston Bachelard never saw how seemingly irrational theories often simply represented a drastic shift in scientific perspective.