Knowledge of Life / Georges Canguilhem.
Canguilhem, Georges, author.; Geroulanos, Stefanos, contributor.; Ginsburg, Daniela, contributor.; Marrati, Paola, contributor.; Meyers, Todd, contributor.
2022
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Title Knowledge of Life / Georges Canguilhem.
Author Canguilhem, Georges, author.
ISBN 9780823291977
DOI https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823291977
Published New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2022]
Copyright ©2009
Language English
Language Note In English.
Description 1 online resource (200 p.)
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1515/9780823291977 doi
Summary As the work of thinkers such as Michel Foucault, François Jacob, Louis Althusser, and Pierre Bourdieu demonstrates, Georges Canguilhem has exerted tremendous influence on the philosophy of science and French philosophy more generally. In Knowledge of Life, a book that spans twenty years of his essays and lectures, Canguilhem offers a series of epistemological histories that seek to establish and clarify the stakes, ambiguities, and emergence of philosophical and biological concepts that defined the rise of modern biology. How do transformations in biology and modern medicine shape conceptions of life? How do philosophical concepts feed into biological ideas and experimental practices, and how are they themselves transformed? How does knowledge "undo the experience of life so as to help man remake what life has made without him, in him or outside of him?" Knowledge of Life is Canguilhem's effort to explain how the movements of knowledge and life come to rest upon each other. Published at the dawn of the genetic revolution and still pertinent today, the book tackles the history of cell theory, the conceptual moves toward and away from mechanical understandings of the organism, the persistence of vitalism, and the nature of normality in science and its objects.
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Added Author Geroulanos, Stefanos, contributor.
Ginsburg, Daniela, contributor.
Marrati, Paola, contributor.
Meyers, Todd, contributor.
Series Forms of Living
In Fordham University Press Complete eBook-Package Pre-2014
Fordham University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
Available in Other Form print 9780823229260
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Frontmatter
Contents
Foreword: Life, as Such
Translators' Note
Introduction: Thought and the Living
Part One. Method
1. Experimentation in Animal Biology
Part Two. History
2. Cell Theory
Part Three. Philosophy
3. Aspects of Vitalism
4. Machine and Organism
5. The Living and Its Milieu
6. The Normal and the Pathological
7. Monstrosity and the Monstrous
Appendixes
1. Note on the Transition from Fibrillar Theory to Cell Theory
2. Note on the Relationship Between Cell Theory and Leibniz's Philosophy
3. Extracts from the ''Discours sur l'anatomie du cerveau'' (''Discourse on the Anatomy of the Brain''), delivered by Nicolas Steno in Paris in 1665 to the ''Messieurs de l'Assemble´e de chez Monsieur The´venot'' in Paris
Notes
Bibliography
Index

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