![]() ![]() Poetry uses images that touch one's soul without apparent cause or observable fact. Bachelard decides to study the subjectivity of the soul expressed in poetic imagery. Science studies objective phenomena, i.e., observable facts or events. During this change, he recognizes his acquired knowledge in science is inadequate to understand the poetic imagination. ![]() At the twilight of his career, he decides to take a new approach by reflecting on literature and poetry and using imagination to explore a reality that is not subject to reasoning. Bachelard spends a majority of his career as a scientist and university instructor following specific scientific methods of observation, experimentation, analysis and reasoning. The author is known as a modest, unusual man, who matures from a young man working in public administration to become the chairman in philosophy at the Sorbonne, where he is loved and admired by students. He is considered one of the leading philosophers of Europe and the author of many other books. Gaston Bachelard is a French philosopher and the author of "The Poetics of Space." Bachelard lived from 1884 to 1962. ![]()
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