Atomistic Intuitions: An Essay on Classification (SUNY series in Contemporary French Thought)

Product Description

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

Review

“…[Bachelard’s] analysis of the different schools of thought on the nature of atomism was quite illuminating … his challenge both to natural scientists and to philosophers and theologians to construct a metaphysical system not as an end in itself but as a tool for further research and reflection was quite thought-provoking.” ―
Process Studies

About the Author

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.