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Knowledge of Life

English · Hardback

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Informationen zum Autor Trained in philosophy and medicine, Georges Canguilhem (1904-1995) remains one of France's most influential philosophers of science. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. This book explains how the movements of knowledge and life come to rest upon each other.

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Authors Georges Canguilhem, Georges/ Geroulanos Canguilhem
Assisted by Paola Marrati (Editor), Todd Meyers (Editor), Stefanos Geroulanos (Translation), Daniela Ginsburg (Translation)
Publisher Fordham University Press
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 15.12.2008
 
EAN 9780823229253
ISBN 978-0-8232-2925-3
No. of pages 200
Series Forms of Living
Forms of Living
Subjects Humanities, art, music > Philosophy
Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general)
Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works

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