Zbigniew Kotowicz is Research Fellow at the Centre for Philosophy of Science of the University of Lisbon. He spent 15 years working as a clinical psychologist and psychotherapist, mostly with R. D. Laing's Philadelphia Association. Subsequently, he took a doctorate in philosophy at the University of Warwick. He was Wellcome Research Fellow in the History of Medicine in the Department of History, Goldsmiths, University of London.

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Introduction1. The New Scientific Mind
The Epistemological Rupture
The Epistemological Obstacle
The Ruses of Prejudice
Naïvety
Science and History
Rationalism
Truth, Dialectics, the Philosophy of No
Mathematics, la phénoménotechnique
Against Substance
Pythagorism (and further thoughts on la phénoménotechnique)
Some Concluding Remarks
Appendix to Chapter 1: 'Surrationalism' by Gaston Bachelard2. The Imaginary
The Turn
The Imagining Faculty
Imagination and Violence
Narcissism
The Body, Hylozoism
A Psychoanalysis of a Philosophical Mind
The Four Elements
The Imaginary and Philosophy
Overcoming Pain, Overcoming Death
Topophilia
Masculine Death, Feminine Death3. The Poetics of Time
The Instant
Duration
The Void
Rhythm and Vibration
Against Bergson
The Void and Nothingness
Concluding RemarksAppendix: Bachelard and AtomismSome Preliminary Remarks on Democritus, Epicurus and Pierre Gassendi
Democritus and Hylozoism
The Atom in Contemporary Thought
The Void
Four Atomist systems
Bachelard and Atomism (Epistemology)
Bachelard and Atomism ('Metaphysics')
On Philosophical AspirationNotes
Bibliography
Index