Poetics

Gaston Bachelard Gaston Bachelard was born in Bar-sur-Aube, France, on 27 June 1884 and died in Paris on 16 October 1962. Of modest origins, he worked in the postal service before turning to the study of science and then philosophy. He taught physics and chemistry at the Bar-sur-Aube college from 1919, took his doctorate in 1927, and was a professor at the University of Dijon from 1930 to 1940. In that year he took up the chair of history and philosophy of science at the Sorbonne, which he held until 1954, succeeding Abel Rey. Georges Canguilhem was his disciple and his successor at the Sorbonne. ...