A Vital Rationalist

Selected Writings from Georges Canguilhem (Zone Books)

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by Georges Canguilhem,

Edited by Francois Delaporte,

Translated by Arthur Goldhammer

Zone Books

Due/Published December 1993, 481 pages, cloth

ISBN 0942299728

Introduction by Paul Rabinow

Georges Canguilhem is one of France's foremost historians of science. A Vital Rationalist 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together for the first time a selection of Canguilhem's most important writings, including excerpts from previously unpublished manuscripts and a critical bibliography by Camille Limoges. Organized around the major themes and problems that have preoccupied Canguilhem throughout his intellectual career, the collection allows readers, whether familiar or unfamiliar with Canguilhem's work, access to a vast array of conceptual and concrete meditations on epistemology, methodology, science, and history.