Suzanne Bachelard (October 18, 1919,

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– November 3, 2007, Paris) was a French philosopher and academic. In 1958, she published ''La Conscience de la rationalité''. She was the daughter of philosopher

Gaston Bachelard Gaston Bachelard (; ; 27 June 1884 – 16 October 1962) was a French philosopher. He made contributions in the fields of poetics and the philosophy of science. To the latter, he introduced the concepts of ''epistemological obstacle'' and '' epi ...

whose posthumous book ''Fragments d'une Poétique du Feu'' she edited. She taught at the

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, where she also had

Jacques Derrida Jacques Derrida (; ; born Jackie Élie Derrida; See also . 15 July 1930 – 9 October 2004) was an Algerian-born French philosopher. He developed the philosophy of deconstruction, which he utilized in numerous texts, and which was developed t ...

as her assistant.Bennington (1991) p.330 She was the first translator to French of

Edmund Husserl , thesis1_title = Beiträge zur Variationsrechnung (Contributions to the Calculus of Variations) , thesis1_url = https://fedora.phaidra.univie.ac.at/fedora/get/o:58535/bdef:Book/view , thesis1_year = 1883 , thesis2_title ...

''Formal and Transcendental Logic''.

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References

Geoffrey Bennington Geoffrey Bennington (born 1956) is Asa Griggs Candler Professor of French and Professor of Comparative Literature at Emory University in Georgia, United States, and Professor of Philosophy at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerlan ...

(1991)
Jacques Derrida
', University of Chicago Press. Section ''Curriculum vitae'' pp. 325–36

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