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Author Talcott, Samuel, author.

Title Georges Canguilhem and the problem of error / Samuel Talcott
Published Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2019]
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Description 1 online resource (xxiii, 294 pages)
Contents Intro; Preface; Acknowledgements; Note on Texts, Translations, and References; Contents; Chapter 1 Power, Ruse, and Resistance in Societies of Control: Canguilhem on Algeria, the Republic, and Education; A Political Education During the Downfall of the Republic; The Algeria Writings: War, the New Janissaries, and Other Dangers; Education: Experience, Adventure, Silence; References; Chapter 2 The Births of Political Resistance and Biological Philosophy Out of the Spirit of Medicine: Error in the Early Years; Philosophy of Life, Philosophy of War; Medicine, Philosophy, and Error
Alain, the Fiction of Gods and Spirit, and the Problem of ErrorFascism and Marxism in the Countryside: The CVIA and Peasants; Concluding Remarks; References; Chapter 3 Technical Alterations in the Problem of Error: From the True and the False to the Normal and the Pathological; Notes from the Lycée de Valenciennes; On Descartes and Technique; The Treatise on Logic and Morals; The Course on "Error"; The Essay on Some Problems Concerning the Normal and the Pathological; Concluding Remarks; References; Chapter 4 Error and the Problem of Creation; The Young Canguilhem on Vitalism and Creation
Canguilhem's Two Commentaries on Creative EvolutionBergson, Alain, and the Problem of Creation; Alain: The Powers of the False and Creative Labor; References; Chapter 5 Knowledge of Life True to Life: Medicine, Experimentation, and Milieu; Medicine and Experimentation in the Essay on Some Problems Concerning the Normal and the Pathological; The Place of Experimentation in Knowledge of Life; Canguilhem's Reflexive Method and the Concept of Milieu; References; Chapter 6 Becoming Rationalist: Biological Philosophy, History of the Reflex Concept, and the Uses of Water
Biological Philosophy and Gaston Bachelard: Becoming RationalistThe Reflex: History of a Concept and Its Philosophical Value; On Psychology and Psychiatry; Bachelard, Canguilhem and the Uses of Water in the History of Madness; References; Chapter 7 Experimentation and the Crisis of Medicine; Dagognet's Biological Philosophy and Clinical Anthropology; Canguilhem, Leriche, and the Dehumanization of Medicine; "To Care Is to Undertake an Experiment": Industrial Societies and the Crisis of Medicine; Foucault, Canguilhem, and the History of Modern Medical Experience; References
Chapter 8 Put to the Test: Canguilhem's Biological Philosophy and a New Concept of ErrorScience and the Problem of Error in 1955-1956; Histories of Scientific Concepts of Life, Biological Philosophy of Error; Ruse and Truth, Death and Life in Artistic Creation; The Monstrous in Life, Imagination, and Science; Canguilhem's Biological Philosophy Put to the Test
Summary Examining Georges Canguilhem's enduring attention to the problem of error, from his early writings to Michel Foucault's first major responses to his work, this pathbreaking book shows that the historian of science was also a centrally important philosopher in postwar France. Samuel Talcott elucidates Canguilhem's contributions by drawing on previously neglected publications and archival sources to trace the continuity of commitment that led him to alter his early anti-vitalist, pacifist positions in the face of political catastrophe and concrete human problems. Talcott shows how Canguilhem critically appropriated the philosophical work of Alain, Bergson, Bachelard, and many others while developing his own distinct writings on medicine, experimentation, and scientific concepts in an ethical and political endeavor to resist alienation and injustice. And, while suggesting Canguilhem's sometimes surprising philosophical importance for a range of younger thinkers, the book demonstrates Foucault's own critical allegiance to Canguilhem's spirit, techniques, and investigations
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed May 20, 2019)
Subject Canguilhem, Georges, 1904-1995.
SUBJECT Canguilhem, Georges, 1904-1995 fast
Subject Error -- Philosophy
PHILOSOPHY -- History & Surveys -- Modern.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9783030007799
3030007790