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P. Guenancia, M. Perrot, J.-J. Wunenburger, Bachelard et la pensée allemande. Cahiers Gaston Bachelard, No. 11 (2010).
A more adequate reception of Bachelard in Germany seems to have been stymied by the hegemony of neo-Marxism in the 1960s and 70s.
As the author herself remarks, her choice of Bachelard’s texts upon which she bases her own argument derives from a “personal interest” (14). It is the point which the author wishes to make in her own train of thought, not the compliance to a conventional qualification of Bachelard’s oeuvre, which structures the material she focuses on.
For the sake of reading fluency, I operate with my own translations of the originally German quotations.
In this respect, it is helpful to register Wulz’s remark that the “self-control and precision of thought amid a scientific society” (144.) enables science “to express the I not only by means of immediate emotions, but to adopt a dually mediated distance towards its proper sentiments and intuitive perceptions” (ibid.). This account of (human) subjectivity would in fact open the door to the domain of philosophical anthropology in the tradition of Max Scheler or Helmuth Plessner or, more generally, to theories of the subject that deal with the conditions of possibility facilitating a certain self-awareness of specifically human “agents”.
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Ebke, T. Monika Wulz: Erkenntnisagenten. Gaston Bachelard und die Reorganisation des Wissens. Stud East Eur Thought 64, 143–148 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11212-012-9164-4
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