A Vital Rationalist

Selected Writings of Georges Canguilhem

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by Georges Canguilhem,

Edited by François Delaporte,

Translated by Arthur Goldhammer,

Introduction by Paul Rabinow

Zone Books

Due/Published March 2000, 482 pages, paper

ISBN 0942299736

New in paper (S00)

Georges Canguilhem is one of France's foremost historians of science.A Vital Rationalist brings together for the first time a selectionof Canguilhem's most important writings, including excerpts frompreviously unpublished manuscripts and a critical bibliography byCamille Limoges. Organized around the major themes and problems thathave preoccupied Canguilhem throughout his intellectual career, thecollection allows readers, whether familiar or unfamiliar withCanguilhem's work, access to a wide range of conceptual and concretemeditations on epistemology, methodology, science, and history.