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Histoire des Amphétamines
Pascal Nouvel
Presses Universitaires de France, 2009
320 pages
€ 19.00 (Paperback)
I wanted to add a quick post to announce the publication of the English-language translation of Georges Canguilhem’s Knowledge of Life (La Connaissance de la vie 1952/1965), translated by Stefanos Geroulanos & Daniela Ginsburg, edited and foreword by Paola Marrati & Todd Meyers.
Here’s what has been said about the book:
An exceptional grasp of the enduring philosophical problems of …
For those of you (us) in or near NYC, there’s a very exciting conference on historical epistemology being held at Columbia University on October 10th and 11th, 2008. I don’t think it is too much of a stretch to see the correspondence between the ideas and issues introduced at the conference and the ideas and issues discussed here.…
The new issue of Public Culture (Fall 2008, 20:3, issue 56) has an essay by Georges Canguilhem, “Health: Crude Concept and Philosophical Question,” which explores the concept of “health” and its philosophical ground (and whether it has one…). The essay first appeared as “La santé” in Cahiers du séminaire de philosophie (1988), and was later published as “La santé, concept …
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