Augusto Salazar Bondy and Gastón Bachelard: Comments on a discursive framework

Abstract

The working material of History of Ideas consists mainly of texts. Under the ruling of the concept of influences, our philosophers and their writings were placed in a position of passive receptors of the ideas originated in the “centers of original philosophical production”–mainly European. Categories such as “Illustration”, “Romanticism”, “Positivism” that served the purpose of establishing periods in the development of ideas in those centers, were used in our America to characterize stages in philosophy–incidentally, out of time. For our part, we try to highlight a different kind of reading that focuses on the way the plot of the discourse is weaved, on the basis of the corpus of readings and the possible interactions at every encounter. For this, we take the writings of Augusto Salazar Bondy in which he talks with the French philosopher Gastón Bachelard.