By Cristina Chimisso
ISBN-10: 1136453814
ISBN-13: 9781136453816
During this new examine, Cristina Chimisso explores the paintings of the French thinker of technology, Gaston Bachelard (1884-1962) by way of situating it inside of French cultural lifetime of the 1st half the century. The publication is brought via a research - according to an research of graphics and literary representations - of ways Bachelard''s admirers remodeled him into the legendary snapshot of the thinker, the Patriarch and the ''Teacher of Happiness''. one of these projected picture is contrasted with Bachelard''s personal notion of philosophy and his own pedagogical and ethical ideas.
This pedagogical orientation is an immense function of Bachelard''s texts, and one that deepens our knowing of the most philosophical arguments. the first thesis of the publication is predicated at the exam of the French academic procedure of the time and of French philosophy taught in colleges and conceived by way of modern philosophers. This method additionally is helping to provide an explanation for Bachelard''s reception of psychoanalysis and his mastery of contemporary literature. Gaston Bachelard: Critic of technological know-how and the mind's eye hence enables a brand new analyzing of Bachelard''s physique of labor, when even as supplying an perception into 20th century French tradition.
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Bachelard has never experienced a tranquil and easy 'continuity' in the course of his life, something which his theoretical philosophy also rejected as anathema. 16 . Moreover, the dualism of his work is a reflection of the dualism of his life: He did not prevent his life from showing through in his work and from conveying a style to it. e. scientific and poetic parts, Bachelard himself appears to have belonged to two worlds [and] to have experienced two centuries intensely. 17 Thus, biographical information which might have seemed trivial in other circumstances became loaded with profound and sometimes prophetic meanings: his having started as a Post Office employee made him a hero, being from the Champagne region bestowed precious intellectual faculties on him and so on.
Diplomats and politicians had a similar style. Among them, Philippe Henriot, president of the Union Popular Republicaine de la Gironde, and Jean Doriot, leader of the Belgian Jeunesses communistes and later founder of the fascist Party, were shaven, while many others had a moustache, including the leader of the Radical Party Edouard Herriot. Left-wing politicians also affirmed their anticonformism in terms of facial hair: the first socialist Prime Minister Leon Blum wore a big moustache and his fellow socialist Fontanier wore both a moustache and a goatee.
J. Andre addressed Bachelard with these words: You are always leaving for your inner self. 71 As Steven Shapin argues, the solitary intellectual has been a constant locus in Western culture, for true knowledge has been seen as the heroic achievement of the lone individual. He cites examples throughout the history of Western culture. >72 Artists present themselves removed from the world, as in the case of eighteenth-century English poets who 'developed a conventional poetics of melancholic solitude' and in the case of the Romantics.
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