Posts tagged ‘Gaston Bachelard’

Corrationalism and the problematic

Dossier: Bachelard and the Concept of Problematic


by / RP 173 (May/Jun 2012)

If the fear of being accused of psychologism were not so keenly felt by epistemologists they would no doubt pay more attention to the problem of the acquisition of ideas.* They would then notice that to each new idea there remains attached a perspective of acquisition, an approach structure which develops in a kind of space–time of [...]


What does Bachelard mean by rationalisme appliqué?

Dossier: Bachelard and the Concept of Problematic


by / RP 173 (May/Jun 2012)

While Bachelard’s Rationalisme appliqué can readily be translated as Applied Rationalism, neither the French nor the English are very revealing of the position being advocated. In particular one would be led very far astray if one were to think of rationalism as a philosophical position which suggests that knowledge can be logically deduced from first principles that [...]


What is a problematic?

Dossier: Bachelard and the Concept of Problematic


by / RP 173 (May/Jun 2012)

Gaston Bachelard’s 1949 book, Le Rationalisme appliqué (RA; best translated as Reason Applied), is essential to an understanding of his work, and Bachelard is essential to an understanding of twentieth-century French philosophy. That this book has never been translated into English shows how little the anglophone world is yet acquainted with some key aspects of this corpus. [...]


119 Reviews

by , , , , , and / RP 119 (May/Jun 2003)

Kristin Ross, May ʼ68 and its Afterlives Daniel Bensaïd Penelope Deutscher, A Politics of Impossible Difference:The Later Work of Luce Irigaray Monica Mookherjee Henri Lefebvre, Critique of Everyday Life, Volume 2: Foundations for a Sociology of the Everyday Ben Highmore Gaston Bachelard, The Formation of the Scientific Mind Nina Power John McMurtry, Value Wars: The [...]