A vital rationalist : selected writings from Georges Canguilhem / edited by Fran̨cois Delaporte ; translated by Arthur Goldhammer ; with an introduction by Paul Rabinow and a critical bibliography by Camille Limoges.

  • Canguilhem, Georges, 1904-1995.
Date:
1994
  • Books

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Publication/Creation

New York : Zone Books, 1994.

Physical description

481 pages ; 24 cm

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographic references (p. 455-481) and index

Contents

The history of science -- The various models -- The history of the history of science -- Epistemology of biology -- Epistemology of physiology : A baroque physiology ; An experimental science ; The major problems of nineteenth-century physiology -- Epistemology of medicine : The limits of healing ; The new situation of medicine ; A medical revolution -- Cell theory -- The concept of reflex -- Biological objects -- René Descartes -- Auguste Comte -- Claude Bernard -- Knowledge and the living : Science and life ; The concept of life -- The normal and the pathological : Introduction to the problem ; The identity of the two states ; Implications and counterpositions -- Normality and normativity.

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Copy 1 Supplier/Donor: Coutts

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