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 Gaston Bachelard
France
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A modest postal assistant, in 1912 he received
a degree in mathematics. After 4 years in the army, he became a teacher in Bar-sur-Aube.
After his wife's death in 1920, he studied philosophy, while raising his daughter and teaching. In 1922 he passed the "agrégation" examination, the highest qualification for teachers at the secondary level, and in 1927 received his doctorate
In 1930, he was appointed as a philosophy teacher in Dijon, and then was awarded a chair in history and philosophy at the Sorbonne University in Paris.
In his works on Epistemology (the philosophy of sciences) and Poetry, he emphasized Imagination based on the 4 elements : water, earth, air, and fire.
He was awarded Grand Prix National des Lettres and his prominence earned him participation on a television.
Worth reading : La Psychanalyse du Feu, l'Eau et les Rêves, l'Air et les Songes, Lautréamont, la Terre et les Rêveries de la Volonté, le Nouvel Esprit Scientifique, Poétique de l'Espace.
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