Gaston Bachelard: A Philosophy of the Surreal

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

Author: Zbigniew J. Kotowicz
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 02/22/2018
Pages: 224
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.00w x 0.70d
ISBN13: 9781474432238
ISBN10: 1474432239
BISAC Categories:
- Philosophy | Epistemology
- Philosophy | Criticism
- Philosophy | History & Surveys | Modern

About the Author

Zbigniew Kotowicz is Research Fellow at the Centre for Philosophy of Science of the University of Lisbon. He spent 15 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.