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Gaston Bachelard

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Posted 07/04/09 - 06:24 AM: Subject: Gaston Bachelard	#1
I'm new here. I couldn't find much on Bachelard on the web, so I thought maybe I should join a philosophy forum. Well, surprise, I did a search here and I found only ONE topic, and nobody could answer a thing on Bachelard! Also, some huge philosophy encyclopedias (english) don't even have an entry for him!! Why is that? Why in the english speaking world he is so unkown? I'm curious... he is very respected and known in the academic world here in Brazil and France. I am not an expert in philosophy but I get in touch with it through literary theory. Bachelard is the first philosopher I get really excited about, I've read some of his "nocturnal" works, and know I want to read some of his diurnal books, and I would like to know more about it, or where to start. Thanks.

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Posted 07/05/09 - 04:02 AM:	#2
Perhaps philosophy and "literary theory" are not as closely related as you believe them to be.
"Let us not pretend to doubt in philosophy what we do not doubt in our hearts."--C.S. Peirce "There is nothing so absurd but some philosopher has said it."--Marcus Tullius Cicero "Philosophy recovers itself when it ceases to be a device for dealing with the problems of philosophers and becomes a method, cultivated by philosophers, for dealing with the problems of men."--John Dewey

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Posted 07/12/09 - 10:01 AM:	#3
Well there is the fact that most French philosophers remain unknown and unappreciated (Rightly or wrongly) in analytic Anglosaxonic circles. Bachelard however is usually associated with Philosophy of Science, not literary theory. In my mind, the best English introduction is Mary Tiles "Bachelard: Science and objectivity", which essentially restructures his work in an analytic way. Hope that helps a bit.

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