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Georges Canguilhem (4 June 1904, Castelnaudary, Aude – 11 September 1995, Marly-le-Roi) was a French philosopher and physician who specialized in epistemology and the philosophy of science (in particular, biology).

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Bibliography

Primary literature

  • Essai sur quelques problèmes concernant le normal et le pathologique (1943), re-published with the title Le normal et le pathologique, augmenté de Nouvelles réflexions concernant le normal et le pathologique (1966).
  • La connaissance de la vie (1952).
  • La formation du concept de réflexe aux XVII et XVIII siècles (1955).
  • Du développement à l’évolution au XIX siècle (1962).
  • Etudes d’histoire et de philosophie des sciences (1968).
  • Vie et Régulation, articles contributed to Encyclopaedia Universalis (1974).
  • Idéologie et rationalité dans l’histoire des sciences de la vie (1977).
  • La santé, concept vulgaire et question philosophique (1988).

Translations into English

  • Ideology and Rationality in the History of the Life Sciences, trans. Arthur Goldhammer (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1988).
  • The Normal and the Pathological, trans. Carolyn R. Fawcett & Robert S. Cohen (New York: Zone Books, 1991).
  • Machine and Organism, trans. Mark Cohen & Randall Cherry, in "Incorporations" Ed. by Jonathan Crary and Sanford Kwinter (New York: Zone Books, 1992).
  • A Vital Rationalist: Selected Writings, trans. Arthur Goldhammer (New York: Zone Books, 1994).
  • Knowledge of Life, trans. Stefanos Geroulanos and Daniela Ginsburg (New York: Fordham UP, 2008).

Secondary literature

  • Dagognet, François, Georges Canguilhem: Philosophie de la vie (Paris: 1997).
  • Foucault, Michel, "Introduction" to Canguilhem, The Normal and the Pathological.
  • Horton, R., "Georges Canguilhem: Philosopher of Disease," Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine 88 (1995): 316-319.
  • Lecourt, Dominique, Georges Canguilhem, Paris, PUF/Que sais je ?, février 2008.
  • Rabinow, Paul, "Introduction: A Vital Rationalist," in Canguilhem, A Vital Rationalist: Selected Writings.
  • Roudinesco, Elisabeth, Philosophy in Turbulent Times: Canguilhem, Sartre, Foucault, Althusser, Deleuze, Derrida, Columbia University Press, New York, 2008.
  • Georges Canguilhem, philosophe, historien des sciences, Actes du colloque organisé au Palais de la Découverte les 6, 7 et 8 décembre 1990 par Étienne Balibar, M. Cardot, F. Duroux, M. Fichant, Dominique Lecourt et J. Roubaud, Bibliothèque du Collège International de Philosophie/Albin Michel, Paris, 1993, ISBN 2226062017.
  • Economy and Society 27:2-3 (1998). Special issue dedicated to Canguilhem.




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