Georges Canguilhem is Professor Emeritus at the Sorbonne and former director of the Institut d'Histoire des Sciences et des Techniques de l'Université 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.
A Vital Rationalist Selected Writings of Georges Canguilhem Georges Canguilhem; François Delaporte (Ed.); Translated by Arthur Goldhammer Cloth / January 1994 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together for the first time a selection of Canguilhem's most important writings, including excerpts from previously unpublished manuscripts and a critical bibliography by Camille Limoges. Price $42.95 | ADD TO CART
Ideology and Rationality in the History of the Life Sciences Georges Canguilhem; Translated by Arthur Goldhammer Cloth / September 1988 Throughout his long career Canguilhem has been concerned with the way in which ideas originate and become transformed in scientific discourse, and with the role played by ideological factors in determining the direction if not the results of scientific work. This book collects his published essays of the 1970s. OUT OF PRINT
Nature's Second Kingdom François Delaporte; Translated by Arthur Goldhammer Cloth / March 1982 Nature's Second Kingdom charts the concepts and practices of eighteenth-century discourses on 'vegetality,' the 'whatever it is' which is peculiar to plants. OUT OF PRINT
