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4 unusual facts about Gaston Bachelard


Gaston Bachelard

He was a professor at Dijon from 1930 to 1940 and then became the inaugural chair in history and philosophy of the sciences at the Sorbonne.

Etudes de philosophie et d'histoire des sciences, by C. Bouligand, G. Canguilhem, P. Costabel, F. Courtes, François Dagognet, M. Daumas, Gilles Granger, J. Hyppolite, R. Martin, R. Poirier and R. Taton

Henk van Dongen

The law of inconsistency figured prominently in his thinking (see the work of intuitionists such as Brouwer and Bachelard on the law of excluded middle, and the concept of via negativa in theology).

Lee Garim

Lee Garim has also translated works by Gaston Bachelard including The Flame of a Candle (Chotbul-ui mihak) and Water and Dreams (Mulgwa kkum).


David Medalla

In 1960s Paris, the French philosopher Gaston Bachelard introduced his performance 'Brother of Isidora' at the Academy of Raymond Duncan, later, Louis Aragon would introduce another performance and finally, Marcel Duchamp honoured him with a 'medallic' object.

Robert Desoille

Authors that cite Desoille's work include Charles Baudouin, Gaston Bachelard, Juliette Favez-Boutonier, Françoise Dolto, and Daniel Lagache; parallels have also been drawn between Desoille's work and that of Milton H. Erickson and neuro-linguistic programming.


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