Georges Canguilhem is one of France's foremost historians of science.                  Trained as a medical doctor as well as a philosopher, he combined these practices to                  demonstrate to philosophers that there could be no epistemology without concrete                  study of the actual development of the sciences and to historians that there could                  be no worthwhile history of science without a philosophical understanding of the                  conceptual basis of all knowledge. 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          time a selection of Canguilhem's most important writings, including excerpts from                  previously unpublished manuscripts and a critical bibliography by Camille                  Limoges.Organized around the major themes and problems that have preoccupied               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. Canguilhem is a demanding writer, but Delaporte succeeds in marking out the                  main lines of his thought with unrivaled clarity; readers will come away with a                  heightened understanding of the complex and crucial place he holds in French                  intellectual history.Georges Canguilhem is Professor Emeritus at the Sorbonne and                  former director of the Institut d'Histoire des Sciences et des Techniques de                  l'Université de Paris. His works include La Connaissance de la Vie, Ideology and                  Rationality in the History of the Life Sciences, and The Normal and the                  Pathological. François Delaporte is a Research Associate at the Institut National de                  la Santé et de la Recherche Medicale in Paris. He is the author of Disease and                  Civilization and The History of Yellow Fever.

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