The silence of organs. Disagreements between health and normality according to G. Canguilhem and M. Foucault

Authors

  • Esteban A. García Universidad de Buenos Aires–Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.24310/Contrastescontrastes.v19i1.1072

Keywords:

Normality; Medicine; Corporeality; Life

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to analyze and confront two diverging theoretical perspectives –those pertaining to G. Canguilhem and M. Foucault– concerning the epistemological status of modern sciences of the human body. Both philosophers examined extra-scientific factors that play a role in the constitution of the object of physiology: the human body qualified as «normal», which medical technique regards as a therapeutic ideal. However, in his analysis Canguilhem referred to subjective and biological foundations (such as human suffering and «vital normativity»), whereas his disciple granted greater importance to the political factors of social normalization.

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Author Biography

  • Esteban A. García, Universidad de Buenos Aires–Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas

    Esteban García es Licenciado (1998) y Doctor en Filosofía (2005) por la Universidad de
    Buenos Aires. Actualmente es docente en la cátedra de Gnoseología de la carrera de Filosofía
    de la misma Universidad, e Investigador Asistente en el Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones
    Científicas y Técnicas. Asimismo, oficia como director de un proyecto de investigación grupal
    (UBACYT) radicado en la U.B.A. acerca de fenomenología del cuerpo.
    Línea de investigación
    El pensamiento de M. Merleau-Ponty, la fenomenología y la cuestión de la corporalidad
    en la filosofía francesa contemporánea.
    Publicaciones recientes
    (2012) Filosofía, corporalidad y percepción, Buenos Aires, Editorial Rhesis, 2012 (ISBN
    978-987-27375-1-1).
    (2012) Merleau-Ponty en la reflexión contemporánea acerca de las políticas normativas del
    cuerpo (G. Canguilhem, S. de Beauvoir, M. Foucault, P. Bourdieu, J. Butler) en Mario Teodoro
    Ramírez et al. (eds.), Merleau-Ponty Viviente, Madrid, Ed. Anthropos, 2012, 574 pp. (ISBN
    9788415260226).
    Dirección electrónica: baneste72@gtmail.com

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Published

2013-03-12

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Vol. 19 No. 1 (2014)

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ARTICLES

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The silence of organs. Disagreements between health and normality according to G. Canguilhem and M. Foucault. (2013). Contrastes. Revista Internacional De Filosofía, 19(1). https://doi.org/10.24310/Contrastescontrastes.v19i1.1072
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