The concatenation of things. Style and diagnosis in Adolf Bastian's writing
Buchheit analyzes Bastian's style of writing, his ’infrastructure of writing', Bastian's concatenation of things, by going through, and citing, his work in detail, and deconstructing his texts. So there are aspects of the history of anthropology, biography, a critique, but Buchheit oppines his study is an ’anthropological' book. Anthropology (ethnology) the author translates as “about the word and the calculation of man" (logos, ethnos). And given the fact that one solitary human being ’has no words', it is always words that are negotiated, or ’calculated', and they are always the words of several, of many people. Against the background of Bastian's ’monolithic' world, his ’cosmotheory' based on an energetic principle, without differences (Buchheit sees the worldview of the age of Montaigne preserved in Bastian), his thinking becomes blurred and his writing becomes an indiscriminate presence Bastian himself called it the “Abschwingen" (spiralling down) into un-determinability. According to Bastian, ’spiralling down' perception means merging in events, because one is concerned with them.
Keywords; Bastian, A., philosophy and anthropology, logic (A. Bastian), elementary logic (A. Bastian), monads, energy principle, eponyms, cosmotheory, logos, vibration and logos, perception, apperception, interlinkage principle, concatenation principle
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