BACHELARD, THE STATE OF ART 55 YEARS AFTER HIS DEATH

Abstract

This article is about the repercussion of Gaston Bachelard’s philosophy 55 years after his death.
By his rationalism, Bachelard's thought has an important influence on contemporary French
epistemology. As a poetic reverie, Bachelardism began to be revived in the 21st century
through artistic, geographical and architectural interpretations. This work aims to help the reader
to understand what the author calls a double culture, in the opposition and complementarity of
the two sides of the mind, animus and anima, giving the human depth of being and the means
of freedom, truth and happiness. At the same time, this bachelardism unfolds three new
perspectives: education, ecology and literary criticism, besides new modern thoughts about this
great transdisciplinary thinker that crosses the body, spirit, and the affections of the social
sphere. Literary criticism leads us to the new hermeneutics and phenomenology surrounds this
aesthetic pedagogy of inteligence. Finally, a landscape ecology, where the imagination is a geo-
pathos, namely, a love for the earth, understood as an integrated and active ecosystem in a
symbiotic biomimetic between man and nature.
Keywords: Gaston Bachelard. Contemporary heritage. Theory-practice. Double culture.