This study cannot get rid of its total ambiguity unless we immediately determine its metaphysical goal. It presents itself as an entry point to the philosophy of comfort, but the philosophy of comfort, as we will see from the first pages, is not a philosophy of comfort. Philosophy cannot pursue tranquility in all calm. It needs metaphysical evidence in order to accept comfort as a right of thought, and it requires several long experiences in order to accept comfort as one of the elements of becoming... The book makes frequent use of familiar advice and examples, in order to proceed directly to the conviction that comfort is written in the heart of the being, and that it should We have to feel it at the core of our very being, even at the level of the temporal reality on which our awareness and personality are based.

غاستون باشلار (27 يونيو 1884 - 16 أكتوبر 1962)، فيلسوف فرنسي. وأحد أهم الفلاسفة الفرنسيين، وهناك من يقول أنه أعظم فيلسوف ظاهري، وربما أكثرهم عصرية أيضًا، فقد كرّس جزئاً كبيرًا من حياته وعمله لفلسفة العلوم، وقدّم أفكارًا متميزة في مجال الابستمولوجيا، حيث تمثل مفاهيمه في العقبة المعرفية والقطيعة المعرفية والجدلية المعرفية والتاريخ التراجعي؛ مساهمات لا يمكن تجاوزها بل تركت آثارها واضحة في فلسفة معاصريه ومن جاء بعده.