![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He also pioneered the theory of the epistemiological break, which describes the history of science as occuring not in an expansion or build up on current scientific theories and assumptions, but as a complete breakaway, or demolishment of previous theories and assumptions that are the true culprits in preventing us from integrating new perceptions and perspectives. He was a critic of the Cartesian worldview which promoted a dualistic, non-reconcilatory and reductive way of reasoning, and argued that sensory perceptions were complimentary with intellectual deduction and reasoning, not at the expense of one or the other. Gaston Bachelard was highly unusual from other philosophers and scientists in his time. The only prerequisite needed here is your capacity to build sandcastles in the air. This book – philosophical musings, abstracted opinion and also hilariously undisguised apathy for psychologists and scientists for their reductionist POV – is not so much philosophy, but an invitation to the reader to join him in his wanderings, and dream along with him. The cover art for the Penguin edition of Gaston Bachelard’s The Poetics of Space ![]()
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