Gaston Bachelard, Revised and Updated: Philosopher of Science and Imagination

Comprehensive overview of the entire spectrum of works by one of twentieth-century France's most original thinkers.

Gaston Bachelard, one of twentieth-century France's most original thinkers, is known by English-language readers primarily as the author of The Poetics of Space and several other books on the imagination, but he made significant contributions to the philosophy and history of science. In this book, Roch C. Smith provides a comprehensive introduction to Bachelard's work, demonstr...