Gaston Bachelard, Revised and Updated: Philosopher of Science

Name: Gaston Bachelard, Revised and Updated: Philosopher of Science
Brand: State University of New York Press

State University of New York Press

Gaston Bachelard, Revised and UpdatedPhilosopher of Science and Imagination\nAuthor(s): Roch C. Smith\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: State University of New York Press, United States\nImprint: State University of New York Press\nISBN-13: 9781438461915, 978-1438461915\nSynopsis\nComprehensive overview of the entire spectrum of works by one of twentieth-century France's most original thinkers.\n\nGaston Bachelard, one of twentieth-century France's most original thinkers, is known by English-language readers primarily as the author of The Poetics of Space and several other books on the imagination, but he made significant contributions to the philosophy and history of science. In this book, Roch C. Smith provides a comprehensive introduction to Bachelard's work, demonstrating how his writings on the literary imagination can be better understood in the context of his exploration of how knowledge works in science. After an overview of Bachelard's writings on the scientific mind as it was t.