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2 unusual facts about Georges Canguilhem


Georges Canguilhem

Dagognet, François, Georges Canguilhem: Philosophie de la vie (Paris: 1997).

Rabinow, Paul, "Introduction: A Vital Rationalist," in Canguilhem, A Vital Rationalist: Selected Writings.


Arnold Davidson

His publications (books, articles and essays) cover a wide array of ranging from the Moral Philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas, Vladimir Jankélévitch, and Pierre Hadot to Georges Canguilhem's Philosophy of Science.

Gaston Bachelard

Etudes de philosophie et d'histoire des sciences, by C. Bouligand, G. Canguilhem, P. Costabel, F. Courtes, François Dagognet, M. Daumas, Gilles Granger, J. Hyppolite, R. Martin, R. Poirier and R. Taton

Grey Room

To date it has featured contributions by such prominent historians and theorists as Yves-Alain Bois, Judith Butler, Georges Canguilhem, Hubert Damisch, Friedrich Kittler, Chantal Mouffe, Antonio Negri, Paolo Virno, Paul Virilio, and Samuel Weber.

Jakob von Uexküll

However despite his influence (on the work of philosophers Max Scheler, Ernst Cassirer, Martin Heidegger, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Georges Canguilhem, Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari (in their A Thousand Plateaus), for example) he is still not widely known, and his books are mostly out of print in German and in English.


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