IS THERE A THEORY OF THE SUBJECT IN CANGUILHEM,GEORGES

Although there is no clear-cut doctrine of the subject in the work of Georges Canguilhem, nevertheless there is a sense in which the subject functions as a kind of operator in his work. This article delineates three aspects of such an operative function: a quasi-ontological disco ntinuity separating the living from the non-living; a discontinuity se parating technique from science; and an ethical discontinuity that on be exemplified in the case of medicine. It is at these points of disco ntinuity that the notion of the subject effectively comes into operati on in Canguilhem's work.