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Gaston Bachelard

1884 - 1962

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Gaston Louis Pierre Bachelard (; French: [baʃlaʁ]; 27 June 1884 – 16 October 1962) 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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Gaston Bachelard is the 228th most popular philosopher (down from 212th in 2019), the 584th most popular biography from France (down from 514th in 2019) and the 30th most popular French Philosopher.

Gaston Bachelard is most famous for his book The Poetics of Space, which argues that the spaces we inhabit and the objects we use affect our thoughts and emotions.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Gaston Bachelard ranks 228 out of 1,267. Before him are Xenocrates, Julius Evola, Francisco Suárez, Paulo Freire, Joseph de Maistre, and Ernst Bloch. After him are Benedetto Croce, Al-Ash'ari, Iamblichus, Carneades, Marshall McLuhan, and Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1884, Gaston Bachelard ranks 21. Before him are Otto Fritz Meyerhof, Theodor Heuss, Friedrich Bergius, Charles Edward, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Theodor Svedberg, and Franz Halder. After him are Yevgeny Zamyatin, Hermann Rorschach, Auguste Piccard, Casimir Funk, Lion Feuchtwanger, and Vincent Auriol. Among people deceased in 1962, Gaston Bachelard ranks 14. Before him are Stuart Sutcliffe, Karen Blixen, Lucky Luciano, Arthur Compton, Georges Bataille, and Princess Marie Bonaparte. After him are Yves Klein, Hans Luther, Auguste Piccard, René Coty, Gabriele Münter, and Fritz Kreisler.

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In France

Among people born in France, Gaston Bachelard ranks 584 out of 6,770. Before him are Ambroise Paré (1510), Isabelle Adjani (1955), France Gall (1947), Joris-Karl Huysmans (1848), Carlos Gardel (1890), and Maurice de Vlaminck (1876). After him are Yves Klein (1928), Roger Guillemin (1924), Mireille Darc (1938), Jacques Le Goff (1924), Daniel Auber (1782), and Louis, Grand Condé (1621).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In France

Among philosophers born in France, Gaston Bachelard ranks 30. Before him are Ernest Renan (1823), Nicolas Malebranche (1638), Étienne Bonnot de Condillac (1714), Jean-François Lyotard (1924), Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1881), and Joseph de Maistre (1753). After him are Gabriel Marcel (1889), Roger Garaudy (1913), Nicole Oresme (1323), François Fénelon (1651), Sebastian Brant (1458), and Raymond Aron (1905).

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