by Gaston Bachelard · LAIA; Barcelona · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788476682654
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The Flame of a Candle is an essay by the French philosopher Gaston Bachelard, published in 1989. In this book, Bachelard explores the fascination of the imaginary through the flame, leading readers to domains of meditation, metaphor, and image. The author recreates the literary dreams of poets and painters, inviting us to contemplate the flame as a source of pleasure and knowledge.
Gaston Louis Pierre Bachelard was a French philosopher. He made contributions in the fields of poetics and the philosophy of science. To the latter, he introduced the concepts of epistemological obstacle and epistemological break. He influenced many subsequent French philosophers, among them Michel Foucault, Louis Althusser, Dominique Lecourt and Jacques Derrida, as well as the sociologists Pierre Bourdieu and Bruno Latour.
