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Knowledge of Life
Georges Canguilhem, Translated by Stefanos Geroulanos, and Daniela Ginsburg, Introduction by Paola Marrati, and Todd Meyers
$24.00
ISBN: 9780823229260
Forms of Living
Book (Paperback)
Fordham University Press
200 pages
December 2008
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“It is invaluable that this important set of essays by France’s premier
historian of science is now available in English. They are sure to
have a major impact on a wide range of disciplines.”—Paul Rabinow,
University of California, Berkeley
"After reading these essays, one might well ask, as Canguilhem did, 'What are the presuppositions that drive contemporary interpretations of science?' Currently, few seem to be asking that question . . . Canguilhem presents a metaphysical quandary that remains as vital today as when he wrote 60 years ago."—Isis As the work of thinkers such as Michel Foucault, François 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.
| Trained in philosophy and medicine, GEORGES CANGUILHEM (1904-1995)
remains one of France’s most influential philosophers of science. |
| STEFANOS GEROULANOS is Assistant Professor of History at
New York University. |
| DANIELA GINSBURG is a Ph.D. candidate at
The Johns Hopkins University Humanities Center. |
| PAOLA MARRATI is Professor of Humanities and Philosophy at The Johns Hopkins University, where she directs the Program for the Study of Women, Gender, and Sexuality. She is the author of Genesis and Trace: Derrida Reading Husserl and Heidegger and Gilles Deleuze: cinéma et philosophie. |
| TODD MEYERS is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Anthropology at The Johns Hopkins University. |
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