03512nam 2200649 a 450 991045703140332120211005034428.00-8232-5973-01-282-69849-497866126984910-8232-2927-0(CKB)2520000000008079(EBL)3239506(SSID)ssj0000438690(PQKBManifestationID)11280993(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000438690(PQKBWorkID)10460335(PQKB)10287369(MiAaPQ)EBC3239506(Au-PeEL)EBL3239506(CaPaEBR)ebr10365127(CaONFJC)MIL269849(OCoLC)727645682(MiAaPQ)EBC476642(Au-PeEL)EBL476642(EXLCZ)99252000000000807920081118d2008 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrKnowledge of life[electronic resource] /Georges Canguilhem ; edited by Paola Marrati and Todd Meyers ; translated by Stefanos Geroulanos and Daniela Ginsburg1st ed.New York Fordham University Press20081 online resource (223 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8232-2925-4 Includes bibliographical references (p. 183-198) and index.""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, 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.Life (Biology)BiologyPhilosophyElectronic books.Life (Biology)BiologyPhilosophy.570Canguilhem Georges1904-1995.45542Marrati Paola422853Meyers Todd905658MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910457031403321Knowledge of life2474145UNINA