1884
Gaston Bachelard, French philosopher and poet (died 1962)
Gaston Bachelard, French philosopher and poet (died 1962)
Gaston Bachelard, French philosopher and poet (died 1962)
Gaston Bachelard
French philosopher
- Born
- 1884
Gaston Louis Pierre Bachelard was a French philosopher. He made contributions in the fields of poetics and the philosophy of science. To the latter, he introduced the concepts of epistemological obstacle and epistemological break. He 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.