Knowledge of life
1st ed.
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Author
Contributions
- Marrati, Paola - Contributor
- Meyers, Todd - Contributor
Publication
2008 - Fordham University Press, New York, New York (State)
Language
English
Word Count
50,500 words, Guess
Page Count
202 pages
Identifiers
- ISBN-100823229254
- ISBN-100823229262
- ISBN-139780823229253
- ISBN-139780823229260
- Library of Congress Control Number2008047149
and 5 more
- OCLC Control Number227930882
- Better World Books9780823229260
- Better World Books9780823229253
- Better World BooksKT-014-195
- Open LibraryOL24878627M
Classifications
- DDC570
- LCCQH341 .C313 2008
- LCCQH341.C313 2009
Description
"As the work of thinkers such as Michel Foucault, Francois 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 "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."--book jacket.
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