Gaston Bachelard: A Philosophy of the Surreal

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Edinburgh University Press, 2016 - Art - 212 pages

Gaston Bachelard (1884-1962) was a seminal figure in contemporary French philosophy. Together with Michel Foucault, Georges Canguilhem and Jean Cavaillès, he shaped the 'French epistemological' school of philosophy of science.

In France, Bachelard is a towering presence; in the English-speaking world, he is little known. Now, Zbigniew Kotowicz gives us the first English language, in-depth presentation of the entire spectrum of Bachelard's work: epistemology, poetic imagination and temporality. And he explores an old philosophical tradition that Bachelard's thought opens up - atomism - a doctrine that has been almost forgotten and is much misunderstood.

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About the author (2016)

Zbigniew Kotowicz is research fellow at the Centre for Philosophy of Science of the University of Lisbon. He spent some fifteen years working as a clinical psychologist and psychotherapist, mostly with R. D. Laing's Philadelphia Association. Subsequently, he took a doctorate in philosophy at the University of Warwick. He was Wellcome Research Fellow in the History of Medicine in the Department of History, Goldsmiths, University of London.

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TitleGaston Bachelard: A Philosophy of the Surreal
AuthorZbigniew Kotowicz
PublisherEdinburgh University Press, 2016
ISBN1474417213, 9781474417211
Length212 pages
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Art / History / Modern (late 19th Century to 1945)
Philosophy / Criticism
Philosophy / Epistemology
Philosophy / History & Surveys / General
Philosophy / History & Surveys / Modern
Philosophy / Political
  
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