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| Author(s): |
Fabio Luis Ferreira Nobrega Franco
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Master's Dissertation |
| Press: | São Paulo. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH/SBD) |
| Defense date: | 2012-10-03 |
| Examining board members: |
Vladimir Pinheiro Safatle;
Giuseppe Bianco;
Marilena de Souza Chaui
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| Advisor: | Vladimir Pinheiro Safatle |
| Abstract | |
The present research intends to sustain that the early reflection on Durkheims sociology plays an important role in the evolution of George Canguilhems thought about the life sciences, and, consequently, in the development of his biological philosophy. As this research purports to show, this importance arises from the fact that Durkheims social theory attempted to satisfy the scientific demands for the objectivity and quantification of the phenomena by incorporating, from Comtes biology and Claude Bernards physiology, a theory about the essential identity between normal and pathological states. It is by taking the critique of this theory as a starting point, that the core of Canguilhems life philosophy, namely, his concept of vital normativity, will be developed in his 1943 doctorate thesis, Essai sur quelques problèmes concernant le normal et le pathologique. Finally, by way of conclusion, we suggest that this new conception of life will allow the French philosopher to return, in his Nouvelles réflexions, to the social theory field, in order to deny the same identification between organisms and society that he denounced in Durkheim. (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 09/03931-0 - The concept of life: knowledge and biology in Georges Canguilhem s philosophy |
| Grantee: | Fábio Luís Ferreira Nóbrega Franco |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Master |