Zbigniew Kotowicz

Gaston Bachelard: A Philosophy of the Surreal

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Produktbeschreibung

Analyses Bachelard's work on epistemology, poetic imagination and temporality Gaston Bachelard was a seminal figure in contemporary French philosophy. Together with Jean Cavaillès, Georges Canguilhem and Michel Foucault he shaped the style of thinking characteristic of contemporary philosophy of science known as the 'French epistemological' school. While in France Bachelard is a towering presence, and his influence is visible in the writings of many different thinkers well beyond philosophy of science, he remains little known in the Anglophone world. Zbigniew Kotowicz offers, for the first time in English, an in-depth presentation of the entire spectrum of Bachelard's work - epistemology, poetic imagination and temporality - and he also explores an old philosophical tradition that Bachelard's thought opens up - atomism - a doctrine that has been almost forgotten and is much misunderstood. Zbigniew Kotowicz is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Philosophy of Science at the University of Lisbon.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. August 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 239mm x 155mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9781474417211
• ISBN-10: 1474417213
• Artikelnr.: 45635120

Autorenporträt

Zbigniew Kotowicz is research fellow at the Centre for Philosophy of Science of the University of Lisbon. He spent some fifteen years working as a clinical psychologist and psychotherapist, mostly with R. D. Laing's Philadelphia Association. Subsequently, he took a doctorate in philosophy at the University of Warwick. He was Wellcome Research Fellow in the History of Medicine in the Department of History, Goldsmiths, University of London.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Introduction
1. The New Scientific Mind
The Epistemological Rupture
The Epistemological Obstacle
The Ruses of Prejudice
Naïvety
Science and History
Rationalism
Truth, Dialectics, the Philosophy of No
Mathematics, la phénoménotechnique
Against Substance
Pythagorism (and further thoughts on la phénoménotechnique)
Some Concluding Remarks
Appendix to Chapter 1: 'Surrationalism' by Gaston Bachelard
2. The Imaginary
The Turn
The Imagining Faculty
Imagination and Violence
Narcissism
The Body, Hylozoism
A Psychoanalysis of a Philosophical Mind
The Four Elements
The Imaginary and Philosophy
Overcoming Pain, Overcoming Death
Topophilia
Masculine Death, Feminine Death
3. The Poetics of Time
The Instant
Duration
The Void
Rhythm and Vibration
Against Bergson
The Void and Nothingness
Concluding Remarks
Appendix: Bachelard and Atomism
Some Preliminary Remarks on Democritus, Epicurus and Pierre Gassendi
Democritus and Hylozoism
The Atom in Contemporary Thought
The Void
Four Atomist systems
Bachelard and Atomism (Epistemology)
Bachelard and Atomism ('Metaphysics')
On Philosophical Aspiration
Notes
Bibliography
Index