Georges Canguilhem
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Georges Canguilhem (4 June 1904 – 11 September 1995) was a French philosopher and physician who specialized in epistemology and the philosophy of science (in particular, biology).
Works
(in French unless noted)
Books
- Essai sur quelques problèmes concernant le normal et le pathologique, 1943; repr. as Le Normal et le Pathologique; new ed. as Nouvelles Réflexions concernant le normal et le pathologique, 1966; 9th ed., Paris: PUF/Quadrige, 2005.
- The Normal and the Pathological, trans. Carolyn R. Fawcett and Robert S. Cohen, intro. Michel Foucault, New York: Zone Books, 1991. (English)
- La Connaissance de la vie, 1952; exp ed., Paris: Vrin, 1965; 1992.
- Knowledge of Life, eds. Paola Marrati and Todd Meyers, trans. Stefanos Geroulanos and Daniela Ginsburg, New York: Fordham University Press, 2008. (English)
- La Formation du concept de réflexe aux xviie et xviiie siècles, Paris: PUF, 1955.
- with Georges Lapassade, Jean Piquerol and Jacques Ulmann, Du développement à l’évolution au xixe siècle, 1962; Paris: PUF/Quadrige, 2003.
- Études d'histoire et de philosophie des sciences concernant les vivants et la vie, 1968; 7th ed., Paris: Vrin, 1990.
- Idéologie et rationalité dans l'histoire des sciences de la vie, 1977; Paris: Vrin, 2009.
- Ideology and Rationality in the History of the Life Sciences, trans. Arthur Goldhammer, MIT Press, 1988. (English)
- A Vital Rationalist: Selected Writings, ed. François Delaporte, trans. Arthur Goldhammer, intro. Paul Rabinow, New York: Zone Books, 1994; 2000, 481 pp. (English)
Selected book chapters and essays
- "Machine et organisme", in Canguilhem, La Connaissance de la vie, Hachette, 1952, pp 124-159.
- "Machine and Organism", trans. Mark Cohen and Randall Cherry, in Incorporations, ed. Jonathan Crary and Sanford Kwinter, New York: Zone Books, 1992, pp 44-69. (English)
- "Machine and Organism", in Canguilhem, Knowledge of Life, 2008, pp 75-98. (English)