Gaston Bachelard Philosopher

Gaston 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 rose to some of the most prestigious positions in the Académie française and influenced many subsequent French philosophers, among them Michel Foucault, Louis Althusser, Dominique Lecourt and Jacques Derrida.

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Birth date	June 27, 1884
Birth place	Bar-sur-Aube
Date of death	October 16, 1962
Place of death	Paris
Era	20th-century philosophy
Main interest	Aesthetics Education Psychoanalysis Literary theory History and philosophy of science Constructivist epistemology Historical epistemology

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influenced	Georges Canguilhem Michel Foucault Don Ihde Alexandre Koyré Louis Althusser François Dagognet Dominique Lecourt Thomas Kuhn
influenced by	Émile Meyerson Auguste Comte
notable idea	Epistemological rupture Technoscience Rational materialism
philosophical school	Continental philosophy
region	Western philosophy