| A Vital Rationalist: Selected Writings from Georges Canguilhem Contributor(s): Canguilhem, Georges (Author), Delaporte, Francois (Editor), Goldhammer, Arthur (Translator) |
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ISBN: 0942299736 ISBN-13: 9780942299731 Publisher: Zone Books OUR PRICE: $30.40 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2000 Annotation: Georges Canguilhem (1904-1995) was one of France's foremost historians of science. Trained as a medical doctor as well as a philosopher, he combined these practices to demonstrate to philosophers that there could be no epistemology without concrete study of the actual development of the sciences and to historians that there could be no worthwhile history of science without a philosophical understanding of the conceptual basis of all knowledge. "A Vital Rationalist" brings together for the first time a selection of Canguilhem's most important writings, including excerpts from previously unpublished manuscripts and a critical biography by Camille Limoges. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Science | History |
| Dewey: 500 |
| LCCN: 2001268252 |
| Series: Zone Books |
| Physical Information: 1.4" H x 6" W x 8.9" (1.65 lbs) 488 pages |
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| Publisher Description: Georges Canguilhem is one of France's leading philosophers and historians of science. Trained as both a medical doctor and a philosopher, Canguilhem overlapped these practices to demonstrate that there could be no epistemology without concrete study of the actual development of the sciences and no worthwhile history of science without a philosophical understanding of the conceptual basis of all knowledge. A Vital Rationalist brings together for the first time some of Canguilhem's most important writings, including excerpts from previously unpublished manuscripts. Organized around the major themes and problems that have preoccupied Canguilhem throughout his intellectual career, this collection allows readers both familiar and unfamiliar with Canguilhem's work access to a vast array of conceptual and concrete meditations on epistemology, methodology, science, and history. Although Canguilhem is a demanding writer, Delaporte succeeds in identifying the main lines of his thought with unrivaled clarity and maps out the complex and crucial place this thinker holds in the history of twentieth-century French thought. |
Contributor Bio(s): Canguilhem, Georges: - Georges Canguilhem is Professor Emeritus at the Sorbonne and former director of the Institut d'Histoire des Sciences et des Techniques de l'Université de Paris. His works include La Connaissance de la Vie, Ideology and Rationality in the History of the Life Sciences, and The Normal and the Pathological.Delaporte, Francois: - François Delaporte is a Research Associate at the Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Medicale in Paris. He is the author of Disease and Civilization and The History of Yellow Fever. |