Gaston Bachelard Le Nouvel Esprit Scientifique

however revolutionary, were transforming an earlier Middle Eastern practice. To take one example, an important French ‘structuralist’ tradition adopts the hard science/prescience distinction made by Gaston Bachelard in the 1930s (the so-called ‘epistemological break’ which founds a science, see Bachelard 2003). In the 1960s, Louis Althusser 6. One should always here remember how very fragmentary our sources are. Both Herodotus (see the quote at the opening of this section) and Aristotle described