Bachelard, is an excellent example of the importance of psychological training in sciences, as one should correct spontaneous errors by taking the opposite stance. In the English-speaking world, the connection Bachelard made between psychology and the history of science has been little understood. Bachelard demonstrated how the progress of science could be blocked by certain types of mental patterns, creating the concept of obstacle épistémologique ("epistemological obstacle"). One task of epistemology is to make clear the mental patterns at use in science, in order to help scientists overcome the obstacles to knowledge.

The Philosophy of No: A Philosophy of the New Scientific Mind.

Gaston Bachelard

G.C. Waterston (trans)

Orion Press

The Poetics of Reverie

Literature & Fiction

Poetry

The Orion Press

A collection of essays on the arts (Chagall, Monet, Corti, Segal), literature (Rimbaud, Eluard, Poe, Balzac), and critical principles. Bachelard

The right to dream (An Orion Press book)

Grossman

The Poetics of Space

Penguin Classics

Poetique de L'Espace (French Edition)

Reference

Foreign Language Study & Reference

French & European Pubns

Examines the changes during the twentieth century in the views of mathematics, physics, and the scientific method and discusses the role of the mind in science

The New Scientific Spirit (English and French Edition)

Science & Math

Beacon Press

A illuminating work, by a philosopher who examines various kinds of "space" - such as the space we "love". He writes of the poetry of the places we enjoy.

"[Bachelard] is neither a self-confessed and tortured atheist like Satre, nor, like Chardin, a heretic combining a belief in God with a proficiency in modern science. But, within the French context, he is almost as important as they are because he has a pseudo-religious force, without taking a stand on religion. To define him as briefly as possible – he is a philosopher, with a professional training in the sciences, who devoted most of the second phase of his career to promoting that aspect of human nature which often seems most inimical to science: the poetic imagination ..." – J.G. Weightman, The New York Times Review of Books

The Psychoanalysis of Fire

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

Thirty years since its first publication in English, French philosopher Gaston Bachelard's The Poetics of Space one of the most appealing and lyrical explorations of home. Bachelard takes us on a journey, from cellar to attic, to show how our perceptions of houses and other shelters shape our thoughts, memories, and dreams.

Water and dreams: An essay on the imagination of matter (The Bachelard translations)

History & Criticism

Pegasus Foundation

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