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Gaston Bachelard
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Infobox philosopher
| region = Western philosophy
| era = 20th-century philosophy
| image = Gaston Bachelard 1965.jpg
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| name = Gaston Bachelard
| birth_date =
| birth_place = Bar-sur-Aube, France
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| death_place = Paris, France
| education = University of Paris(B.A., 1920; D.-ès-Lettres, 1927)
| institutions = University of DijonRoutledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy (1998): "Bachelard, Gaston (1884-1962)".University of Paris
| school_tradition = Continental philosophyFrench historical epistemology
| doctoral_advisor = Abel ReyLéon Brunschvicg
| main_interests = Historical epistemologyconstructivist epistemology, history and philosophy of science, philosophy of art, phenomenology, psychoanalysis, literary theory, education
| influences = Charles Nodier, Max Picard, Émile Meyerson, Auguste Comte, Abel Rey, Léon Brunschvicg, Carl Jung
| influenced = Alexandre Koyré, Georges Canguilhem, Michel Foucault, Louis Althusser, Gilles Deleuze, Pierre Bourdieu, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Dominique Lecourt, Gilbert Durand, François Dagognet, Nader El-Bizri, Rogelio Salmona, Don Ihde, Cornelius Castoriadis, Michel Serres, Jules Vuillemin
| notable_ideas = Epistemological break, the poetics of space, rational materialism, technoscience(techno-science)
| signature = SignatureGastonBachelard.png
| signature_size = 100px
Gaston Bachelard (bæʃəˈlɑr; 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 influenced many subsequent French philosophers, among them Michel Foucault, Louis Althusser, Dominique Lecourt and Jacques Derrida, as well as the sociologists Pierre Bourdieu and Bruno Latour.
For Bachelard, the scientific object should be constructed and therefore different from the positivist sciences; in other words, information is in continuous construction.
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