Philosopher, epistemologist, poet, physicist, professor, and literary critic is in a certain sense an unclassifiable author. He was interested in the history of modern or contemporary science, and at the same time in literary imagination, to which he dedicated parallel attention. He earned his doctorate at the Sorbonne in 1927. Between 1930 and 1940, he was a philosophy professor at the Faculty of Letters in Dijon, and later, between 1940 and 1954, he was a professor of history and philosophy of sciences at the Sorbonne, succeeding Abel Rey. In the literary-critical part of his work, Bachelard will focus on deepening the problem of poetic imagination. His studies on the psychology of the elements - water, air, earth - in relation to literature are now classics: Psychoanalysis of Fire (1938), Water and Dreams (1942), Air and Dreams (1943), Earth and Reveries of Will (1948) The Poetics of Space (1957), and The Poetics of Reverie (1960). Bachelard's influence has been evident in later thinkers who have addressed the same theme. He was also read by Barthes or Starobinski, and figures like Georges Canguilhem and Michel Foucault have acknowledged his importance in the epistemological field. Other works: The Formation of the Scientific Spirit (1938), Rational Materialism (1953), The Intuition of the Instant (1973), The Philosophy of the "No": An Essay on a Philosophy of the New Scientific Spirit (2003)
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