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Intro; Preface; Acknowledgements; Note on Texts, Translations, and References; Contents; Chapter 1 Power, Ruse, and Resistance in Societies of Control: Canguilhem on Algeria, the Republic, and Education; A Political Education During the Downfall of the Republic; The Algeria Writings: War, the New Janissaries, and Other Dangers; Education: Experience, Adventure, Silence; References; Chapter 2 The Births of Political Resistance and Biological Philosophy Out of the Spirit of Medicine: Error in the Early Years; Philosophy of Life, Philosophy of War; Medicine, Philosophy, and Error
Alain, the Fiction of Gods and Spirit, and the Problem of ErrorFascism and Marxism in the Countryside: The CVIA and Peasants; Concluding Remarks; References; Chapter 3 Technical Alterations in the Problem of Error: From the True and the False to the Normal and the Pathological; Notes from the Lycée de Valenciennes; On Descartes and Technique; The Treatise on Logic and Morals; The Course on "Error"; The Essay on Some Problems Concerning the Normal and the Pathological; Concluding Remarks; References; Chapter 4 Error and the Problem of Creation; The Young Canguilhem on Vitalism and Creation
Canguilhem's Two Commentaries on Creative EvolutionBergson, Alain, and the Problem of Creation; Alain: The Powers of the False and Creative Labor; References; Chapter 5 Knowledge of Life True to Life: Medicine, Experimentation, and Milieu; Medicine and Experimentation in the Essay on Some Problems Concerning the Normal and the Pathological; The Place of Experimentation in Knowledge of Life; Canguilhem's Reflexive Method and the Concept of Milieu; References; Chapter 6 Becoming Rationalist: Biological Philosophy, History of the Reflex Concept, and the Uses of Water
Biological Philosophy and Gaston Bachelard: Becoming RationalistThe Reflex: History of a Concept and Its Philosophical Value; On Psychology and Psychiatry; Bachelard, Canguilhem and the Uses of Water in the History of Madness; References; Chapter 7 Experimentation and the Crisis of Medicine; Dagognet's Biological Philosophy and Clinical Anthropology; Canguilhem, Leriche, and the Dehumanization of Medicine; "To Care Is to Undertake an Experiment": Industrial Societies and the Crisis of Medicine; Foucault, Canguilhem, and the History of Modern Medical Experience; References
Chapter 8 Put to the Test: Canguilhem's Biological Philosophy and a New Concept of ErrorScience and the Problem of Error in 1955-1956; Histories of Scientific Concepts of Life, Biological Philosophy of Error; Ruse and Truth, Death and Life in Artistic Creation; The Monstrous in Life, Imagination, and Science; Canguilhem's Biological Philosophy Put to the Test.
Alain, the Fiction of Gods and Spirit, and the Problem of ErrorFascism and Marxism in the Countryside: The CVIA and Peasants; Concluding Remarks; References; Chapter 3 Technical Alterations in the Problem of Error: From the True and the False to the Normal and the Pathological; Notes from the Lycée de Valenciennes; On Descartes and Technique; The Treatise on Logic and Morals; The Course on "Error"; The Essay on Some Problems Concerning the Normal and the Pathological; Concluding Remarks; References; Chapter 4 Error and the Problem of Creation; The Young Canguilhem on Vitalism and Creation
Canguilhem's Two Commentaries on Creative EvolutionBergson, Alain, and the Problem of Creation; Alain: The Powers of the False and Creative Labor; References; Chapter 5 Knowledge of Life True to Life: Medicine, Experimentation, and Milieu; Medicine and Experimentation in the Essay on Some Problems Concerning the Normal and the Pathological; The Place of Experimentation in Knowledge of Life; Canguilhem's Reflexive Method and the Concept of Milieu; References; Chapter 6 Becoming Rationalist: Biological Philosophy, History of the Reflex Concept, and the Uses of Water
Biological Philosophy and Gaston Bachelard: Becoming RationalistThe Reflex: History of a Concept and Its Philosophical Value; On Psychology and Psychiatry; Bachelard, Canguilhem and the Uses of Water in the History of Madness; References; Chapter 7 Experimentation and the Crisis of Medicine; Dagognet's Biological Philosophy and Clinical Anthropology; Canguilhem, Leriche, and the Dehumanization of Medicine; "To Care Is to Undertake an Experiment": Industrial Societies and the Crisis of Medicine; Foucault, Canguilhem, and the History of Modern Medical Experience; References
Chapter 8 Put to the Test: Canguilhem's Biological Philosophy and a New Concept of ErrorScience and the Problem of Error in 1955-1956; Histories of Scientific Concepts of Life, Biological Philosophy of Error; Ruse and Truth, Death and Life in Artistic Creation; The Monstrous in Life, Imagination, and Science; Canguilhem's Biological Philosophy Put to the Test.