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The most recent issue of the Cahiers Gaston Bachelard is dedicated to Gaston Bachelard’s (1884–1962) repercussions in and connections to German thought.1 This volume contains well-informed, innovative papers on the (conceivable) ties between Bachelard and thinkers such as Martin Heidegger, Martin Buber or Carl Gustav Jung, to name just a few examples. Divorced from its context, this publication is likely to create the impression that the nexuses between Bachelard’s writings and major positions in modern German philosophy have by tradition attracted a fair degree of attention among researchers on both sides of the Rhine. Yet, this is not the case. Bachelard is anything but a well-known name in the German arena. The “discovery” of Bachelard for the German discussion only really set in by the late 1970s, when his key texts, La formation de l’esprit scientifique (1938) and La philosophie du non(1940), were finally translated into German, nearly 20 years after their author’s death and...

DOI: 10.1007/s11212-012-9164-4

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