Georges Canguilhem is one of France's foremost historians of
science. Trained as a medical doctor as well as a philosopher, he
combined these practices to demonstrate to philosophers that there
could be no epistemology without concrete study of the actual
development of the sciences and to historians that there could be
no worthwhile history of science without a philosophical
understanding of the conceptual basis of all knowledge. A Vital
Rationalist brings together for the first time a selection of
Canguilhem's most important writings, including excerpts from
previously unpublished manuscripts and a critical bibliography by
Camille Limoges.Organized around the major themes and problems that
have preoccupied Canguilhem throughout his intellectual career, the
collection allows readers, whether familiar or unfamiliar with
Canguilhem's work, access to a vast array of conceptual and
concrete meditations on epistemology, methodology, science, and
history. Canguilhem is a demanding writer, but Delaporte succeeds
in marking out the main lines of his thought with unrivaled
clarity; readers will come away with a heightened understanding of
the complex and crucial place he holds in French intellectual
history.Georges Canguilhem is Professor Emeritus at the Sorbonne
and former director of the Institut d'Histoire des Sciences et des
Techniques de l'Universite de Paris. His works include La
Connaissance de la Vie, Ideology and Rationality in the History of
the Life Sciences, and The Normal and the Pathological. Francois
Delaporte is a Research Associate at the Institut National de la
Sante et de la Recherche Medicale in Paris. He is the author of
Disease and Civilization and The History of Yellow Fever."
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