Ideology and Rationality in the History of the Life Sciences

by Georges Canguilhem

Book Overview

Georges Canguilhem is one of the most distinguished French epistemologists and historians of science of our time. His influence on Michel Foucault and Camille Limoges is well known, and his work in the history of the biological sciences, particularly the nineteenth century, is regarded as seminal. Throughout his long career Canguilhem has been concerned with the way in which ideas originate and become transformed in scientific discourse, and with...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262530945
• ISBN13: 9780262530941
• Release Date: January 1990
• Publisher: MIT Press (MA)
• Length: 174 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.