Georges Canguilhem and the Problem of Error

• Main Author: Talcott, Samuel (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Philosophy.; Medicine-Philosophy.; Philosophy and social sciences.; History of Philosophy.; Philosophy of Medicine.; Philosophy of the Social Sciences.

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...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• 1. Canguilhem's Early Years: The Birth of Concrete, Political Problematization out of the Spirit of Resistant Philosophy Chapter
• 2. Canguilhem and the Philosophical Problem of Error Chapter
• 3. From Error in Biology to Psychological Illusion: Canguilhem's Epistemological History and the Early Foucault Chapter
• 4. Medicine and Experimentation in Canguilhem and Foucault: The Place of Disease in Modern Life Chapter
• 5. Intersections of the Concept and Literature in The Order of Things: Foucault and Canguilhem
• 6. The Education of Philosophy: From Canguilhem and The Teaching of Philosophy to Foucault's Discipline and Punish Chapter
• 7. Errant life, molecular biology, and biopower: Canguilhem, Jacob, and Foucault Chapter
• 8. Critical Resistances, Health and Truth in the Later Writings of Canguilhem and Foucault Ending Remarks.