A Vital Rationalist: Selected Writings from Georges Canguilhem

Georges Canguilhem is one of France's leading philosophers and historians of science. Trained as both a medical...
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Author: Georges Canguilhem
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A Vital Rationalist: Selected Writings from Georges Canguilhem by Canguilhem, Georges

A Vital Rationalist: Selected Writings from Georges Canguilhem

¥6,633

A Vital Rationalist: Selected Writings from Georges Canguilhem

¥6,633
Author: Georges Canguilhem
Format: Paperback
Language: English

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brings together for the first time some of Canguilhem's most important writings, including excerpts from previously unpublished manuscripts.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.

Author: Georges Canguilhem
Publisher: Zone Books
Published: 04/04/2000
Pages: 488
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.65lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 1.40d
ISBN: 9780942299731
Audience: Young Adult

About the Author

Georges Canguilhem is Professor Emeritus at the Sorbonne and former director of the Institut d'Histoire des Sciences et des Techniques de l'Universite 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.


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