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Knowledge of Life.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Forms of LivingPublisher: US : Fordham University Press, 2008Copyright date: ©2008Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (223 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780823229277
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Knowledge of LifeDDC classification:
  • 570
LOC classification:
  • QH341 -- .C313 2008eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Life, as Such -- Thought and the Living -- Experimentation in Animal Biology -- Cell Theory -- Aspects of Vitalism -- Machine and Organism -- The Living and Its Milieu -- The Normal and the Pathological -- Monstrosity and the Monstrous -- Reference matter -- Index.
Summary: As the work of thinkers such as Michel Foucault, Fran+ois Jacob, Louis Althusser, and Pierre Bourdieu demonstrates, Georges Canguilhem 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 Gundo the experience of life so as to help man remake what life has made without him, in him, or outside of him?G Knowledge of Life is CanguilhemGs effort to explain how the movements of knowledge and life come to rest upon each other.
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Intro -- Contents -- Life, as Such -- Thought and the Living -- Experimentation in Animal Biology -- Cell Theory -- Aspects of Vitalism -- Machine and Organism -- The Living and Its Milieu -- The Normal and the Pathological -- Monstrosity and the Monstrous -- Reference matter -- Index.

As the work of thinkers such as Michel Foucault, Fran+ois Jacob, Louis Althusser, and Pierre Bourdieu demonstrates, Georges Canguilhem 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 Gundo the experience of life so as to help man remake what life has made without him, in him, or outside of him?G Knowledge of Life is CanguilhemGs effort to explain how the movements of knowledge and life come to rest upon each other.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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