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Gehirnausstülpungen. Zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte intellektueller Arbeit
Author(s) -
Wimmer Mario
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
berichte zur wissenschaftsgeschichte
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.109
H-Index - 8
eISSN - 1522-2365
pISSN - 0170-6233
DOI - 10.1002/bewi.201801915
Subject(s) - intellectual history , german , epistemology , unconscious mind , conceptual history , history of science , philosophy , character (mathematics) , sociology , psychoanalysis , psychology , cognitive science , linguistics , history , politics , geometry , mathematics , political science , law , economic history
Cerebral Protuberances. Towards a History of Intellectual Work . In this paper, I unfold the implications of Warburg's notion of “cerebral protuberance” (German: “Gehirnhirnausstülpung”) for a historical epistemology of intellectual work and material imagination. Attention to the penultimate character of conceptual language, I argue, allows for an analysis of unconscious aspects in the process of knowledge formation. Revisiting Gaston Bachelard's conception of historical epistemology in the age of neuroplasticity, I suggest to attend to the reverberations between history of science and intellectual history in order to arrive at a better understanding of the exteriority of intellectual activity and the importance of affect in scientific and scholarly production.