Gaston Bachelard Quotes


Every corner in a house, every angle in a room, every inch of secluded space in which we like to hide, or withdraw into ourselves, is a symbol of solitude for the imagination; that is to say, it is the germ of a room, or of a house.


Citations

Bachelard, Gaston. The Poetics of Space. Translated by Maria Jolas, Orion Press, 1958, p. 136.

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Gaston Bachelard
Gaston Bachelard
  • Born: June 27, 1884
  • Died: October 16, 1962
  • Nationality: French
  • Profession: Philosopher

Gaston Bachelard was 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 (obstacle épistémologique and rupture épistémologique). He influenced many subsequent French philosophers, among them Michel Foucault, Louis Althusser, Dominique Lecourt and Jacques Derrida, as well as the sociologists Pierre Bourdieu and Bruno Latour.