Atomistic Intuitions
(October 2018)
An Essay on Classification Gaston Bachelard - Author Roch C. Smith - Translated and with an introduction by Daniel Parrochia - Preface Daniel Parrochia - Foreword
An English translation of the French philosopher’s sixth book, in which he seeks to develop a metaphysical context for modern atomistic science.
French philosopher Gaston Bachelard (1884–1962) is best known in the English-speaking world for his work on poetics and the literary imagination, but much of his oeuvre is devoted to epistemology and the philosophy of science. Like Thomas Kuhn, whose work he anticipates by t...(Read More)
Comprehensive overview of the entire spectrum of works by one of twentieth-century France’s most original thinkers.
Gaston 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 boo...(Read More)