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Abstract
Violence and Mechanism Georges Canguilhem's Overturning of the Cartesian Legacy stefanos geroulanos In a television interview with Alain Badiou broadcast on January 23, 1965, Georges Canguilhem scandalously declared that philosophy could not be judged on the basis of the truth-value of its claims. badiou: Do you think that there is no philosophical truth? You are going to scandalize us with this! canguilhem: Oh I don't think that I will scandalize you personally! But I would say, there is no philosophical truth. Philosophy is not a genre of speculation whose value could be measured by the true- or-false. badiou: In that case, what is philosophy? canguilhem: Although we cannot call philosophy true, this does not mean that it is a purely verbal or purely gratuitous game. The value of philosophy is a different matter than the value of truth, which value of truth must be expressly reserved for scientific knowledge.1 Perhaps Canguilhem's most forcefully anti- Cartesian moment, this exchange reveals a great deal about a philosopher who had clocked nearly twenty years as inspector general of philosophy and as pres- qui parle fall/winter 2015 vol. 24, no. 1 ident of the French agrégation committee responsible for granting teacher status
Journal
Qui Parle: Critical Humanities and Social Sciences – University of Nebraska Press
Published: Dec 2, 2015