Bachelard

What Dominique Pagani says

Dominique Pagani cites Bachelard as a figure of the post-war French epistemological school1. He also presents him as a scientist who, unusually, philosophizes competently2. He owes to him the notion of epistemological break, which in his view Althusser diverted3, as well as the notion of epistemological obstacle, which he applies to ancient finalism4. He often takes up Bachelard's formulas: "science simplifies the real and complicates reason"5, "to be precise is to commit oneself", "I do not live in the infinite". He also takes up the contrast drawn in Le Rationalisme appliqué: philosophers throw arguments at each other, physicists exchange information6. Another idea he takes up: if the whole of an era's physics fitted in the library of Alexandria, it was because it was underdeveloped. On the Pythagorean theorem, he retains the idea of learning to work with nothing, like the gods. He also reads L'Eau et les Rêves, which he considers the richest of the series on the four elements. He retains from it the typology of waters and the swan, an image of narcissism and of a repressed nakedness7.

1. 1D comme Désir17 Dec 2014 · 8:51
2. 2Ni gauche ni droite ? Islamo gauchisme ?17 Oct 2023 · 18:16
3. 3Tout est permis mais rien n'est possible - Michel Clouscard - 229 Jan 2012 · 13:46
4. 49 #22 Science et/ou philosophie de l' "intelligence artificielle" - 2ème partie27 May 2021 · 1:31:03
5. 5#14 Cavernes d'Hier et d'Aujourd'hui - De Platon à la modernité10 Jun 2022 · 1:12:23
6. 6#2.6 Entre crise et guerre : Philosopher ?1 Aug 2017 · 8:38
7. 7De la fidélité à la grâce - De la substance au Sujet30 May 2024 · 55:22

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