In The Dialectic of Duration Gaston Bachelard addresses the nature of time in response to the writings of his great contemporary Henri Bergson. The work is motivated by a refutation of Bergsons notion of duration lived time experienced as continuous. For Bachelard experienced time is irreducibly fractured and interrupted as indeed are material events. At stake is an entire conception of the physical world an entire approach to the philosophy of science. It was in this work that Bachelard first