Gaston Bachelard
Gaston Bachelard
Gaston Bachelardwas 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 sociologist Pierre Bourdieu...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionPhilosopher
Date of Birth27 June 1884
CountryFrance
destinies future opens poetic poetry
Poetry is one of the destinies of speech. . . . One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language.
fall records poetic
All the senses awaken and fall into harmony in poetic reverie. Poetic reverie listens to this polyphony of the senses, and the poetic consciousness must record it.
causality poetic
The poetic image exists apart from causality.
dream light poet
In living off all the reflecting light furnished by poets, the I which dreams the reverie reveals itself not as poet but as poetizing I.
thinking poetry thinking-of-others
One doesn't read poetry while thinking of other things.
poetic surface
The poetic image is a sudden salience on the surface of the psyche
past echoes poetic
The poetic image […] is not an echo of the past. On the contrary: through the brilliance of any image, the distant past resounds with echoes.
real imagination perception
Why should the actions of the imagination not be as real as those of perception?
childhood germs excess
An excess of childhood is the germ of a poem.
life wells ifs
To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.
real book proof
The best proof of the specificity of the book is that it is at once a reality of the virtual and a virtuality of the real.
quality term expressive
Any comparison diminishes the expressive qualities of the terms of the comparison.
description subjects objects
Empirical description involves enslavement to the object by decreeing passivity on the part of the subject.
teach cease
He who ceases to learn cannot adequately teach.