Gaston Bachelard: Actuality and Modernity of the History of Science

Since Nietzsche, the task of philosophy has been to make diagnoses of the present. In this article, we show how Gaston Bachelard articulated, through Nietzsche, this preoccupation with the present - typical of modern philosophy - in his reflection on the theory and method of the History of Science, in other words, we show that, through the work of Bachelard, diagnosis has become a philosophical task for historians.

Keywords:
Bachelard; Nietzsche; History of Science