Bachelard Atomistic Intuitions

An Essay on Classification
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-1-4384-7129-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 152 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: SUNY series in Contemporary French Thought

An English translation of Bachelard's sixth book, in which he seeks to develop a metaphysical context for modern atomistic science.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bachelard, Gaston

Weitere Mitwirkende

Smith, Roch C.

Parrochia, Daniel

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie: Allgemeines, Methoden

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Translator’s introduction

Preface to the French Edition

Introduction: The Fundamental Complexity of Atomistics

Part I.

1. The Metaphysics of Dust

2. Realist Atomism

3. Problems of the Composition of Phenomena

Part II.

4. Positivist Atomism

5. Critical Atomism

6. Axiomatic Atomism

Conclusion

Notes

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Roch C. Smith is Professor Emeritus of French Studies at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. He is the author of Gaston Bachelard, Revised and Updated: Philosopher of Science and Imagination, also published by SUNY Press, as well as books on Alain Robbe-Grillet and André Malraux.