Lecourt, Dominique

Proletarian science? : the case of Lysenko by Dominique Lecourt ( Book )
23 editions published between 1976 and 1995 in 5 languages and held by 498 libraries worldwide

Marxism and epistemology : Bachelard, Canguilhem and Foucault by Dominique Lecourt ( Book )
30 editions published between 1969 and 2002 in 4 languages and held by 438 libraries worldwide

The mediocracy : French philosophy since the mid-1970s by Dominique Lecourt ( Book )
14 editions published between 1999 and 2002 in French and English and held by 346 libraries worldwide
"According to Dominique Lecourt, a veritable counter-revolution in French thought has seen the period of the "master-thinkers" of the 1960s succeeded by an era of generalized mediocrity. Where Althusser or Lacan, Foucault or Derrida once held centre stage, today restorationist currents prevail in the academy and on television sets. Fuelled by a complaisant media, the contemporary French ideology seeks neither to interpret nor to change the world, but is instead content to legitimate a globally hegemonic neo-liberalism." "The story Lecourt tells posits two key turning points in the career of the French intelligentsia. The first is the anti-Marxist turn of the mid-1970s, championed by the New Philsophers and prompted by disappointment in an imaginary Maoism as an alternative of official Communism. The second is the revulsion at the theoretical anti-humanism of the alleged pensee '68, sponsored by Luc Ferry and Alain Renaut's 1985 polemic of that title. Concerned to identify the significant differences masked by the construction of an anti-humanist straw man, Lecourt nevertheless defends the common critical project to which Althusser, Foucault and others were committed before and after 1968. Contrasting it with the real philosophical impostures and political abdications of the present, he calls for a resumption of traditions that made Paris the post-war intellectual capital of Europe."--BOOK JACKET.

Dictionnaire d'histoire et de philosophie des sciences ( Book )
3 editions published in 1999 in French and held by 277 libraries worldwide

Dictionnaire d'histoire et philosophie des sciences ( Book )
12 editions published between 1999 and 2006 in French and held by 204 libraries worldwide
Une introduction à la pensée scientifique et à son évolution qui unit la réflexion philosophique et l'enquête historique.

La philosophie des sciences by Dominique Lecourt ( Book )
12 editions published between 2001 and 2010 in French and Turkish and held by 192 libraries worldwide
Propose un tableau des doctrines et des débats autour de la philosophie des sciences, dont les récents progrès et les applications posent problème.

Épistémologie by Gaston Bachelard ( Book )
21 editions published between 1971 and 2006 in 4 languages and held by 172 libraries worldwide

Bachelard : ou, Le jour et la nuit : un essai du matérialisme dialectique by Dominique Lecourt ( Book )
3 editions published in 1974 in French and held by 163 libraries worldwide

Dictionnaire de la pensée médicale ( Book )
7 editions published between 2003 and 2004 in French and held by 155 libraries worldwide
Propose, à travers les contributions de plus de 200 auteurs français et étrangers, de répondre aux inquiétudes actuelles sur l'évolution de la médecine contemporaine en montrant la formation et l'évolution des concepts qui ont été forgés au cours de l'histoire pour rendre compte des symptômes et des signes des maladies.

Prométhée, Faust, Frankenstein : fondements imaginaires de l'éthique by Dominique Lecourt ( Book )
11 editions published between 1988 and 1998 in French and held by 138 libraries worldwide
Ce qu'ont en commun ces trois figures, c'est le pouvoir de représenter chacune une attitude face à l'entreprise technique et scientifique: du défi au renoncement, de l'activité créatrice aux dangers qu'elle implique, il s'agit chaque fois de faire face à une situation dans laquelle un tabou risque d'être transgressé.