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- catalog abstract ""Taking a cue from the French phenomenologist Maurice Merleau-Ponty, namely that human perception takes place against the background of a sexed body-consciousness, the author argues that if our concepts derive from our percepts - which would include conceptions regarding human knowing as well - then one would expect correspondingly different epistemologies to derive from differently developed sexualities and/or sexual orientations. To put it in another way: if human sexuality is an apriori, a structure employed to organize the data of experience, then any attempt to reconstruct or reproduce the process whereby we come to know would be colored by the developed functioning structure that is human sexuality." "The work then proceeds to give a critical examination of representative samplings of theories of knowledge from different periods and traditions in the history of philosophy, pointing out the sexual metaphors involved."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b11981589.
- catalog created "c2000.".
- catalog date "2000".
- catalog date "c2000.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2000.".
- catalog description ""Taking a cue from the French phenomenologist Maurice Merleau-Ponty, namely that human perception takes place against the background of a sexed body-consciousness, the author argues that if our concepts derive from our percepts - which would include conceptions regarding human knowing as well - then one would expect correspondingly different epistemologies to derive from differently developed sexualities and/or sexual orientations. To put it in another way: if human sexuality is an apriori, a structure employed to organize the data of experience, then any attempt to reconstruct or reproduce the process whereby we come to know would be colored by the developed functioning structure that is human sexuality." "The work then proceeds to give a critical examination of representative samplings of theories of knowledge from different periods and traditions in the history of philosophy, pointing out the sexual metaphors involved."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Ancient/Medieval and Modern Epistemologies -- Philosophy, Religion, and Sex -- Modern and Contemporary Epistemologies -- The Sexual Metaphor and Freud -- The Use of Metaphors in Philosophy -- The Sexual Metaphor in Epistemology -- Sexuality as an Apriori -- Sexism and Perversions -- Summary -- 1. Merleau-Ponty: The Sexed Body-Consciousness -- 2. Democritus: The Reconstruction of Knowledge -- 3. Plato: An Erotic Theory of Knowledge -- 4. Aristotle: The Heterosexual Response -- 5. Plotinus: A Bisexual Theory -- 6. Aquinas: A Celibate Theory -- 7. Descartes: The Voyeurism of Rationalism -- 8. Locke: An Asexual Epistemology -- 9. Kant: The Epistemology of a Confirmed Bachelor -- 10. Fichte: The Wissenschaftslehre and Romantic Love -- 11. Schopenhauer: An Anti-sex Epistemology -- 12. Sartre: The Useless Passion and/or the Battle Eternal -- 13. De Beauvoir: Reproductive Knowing.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [183]-189) and index.".
- catalog extent "192 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "1575910314 (alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "2000".
- catalog issued "c2000.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Selinsgrove, Pa. : Susquehanna University Press ; London : Associated University Presses,".
- catalog subject "121 21".
- catalog subject "BD161 .S395 2000".
- catalog subject "Knowledge, Theory of.".
- catalog subject "Sex symbolism.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Ancient/Medieval and Modern Epistemologies -- Philosophy, Religion, and Sex -- Modern and Contemporary Epistemologies -- The Sexual Metaphor and Freud -- The Use of Metaphors in Philosophy -- The Sexual Metaphor in Epistemology -- Sexuality as an Apriori -- Sexism and Perversions -- Summary -- 1. Merleau-Ponty: The Sexed Body-Consciousness -- 2. Democritus: The Reconstruction of Knowledge -- 3. Plato: An Erotic Theory of Knowledge -- 4. Aristotle: The Heterosexual Response -- 5. Plotinus: A Bisexual Theory -- 6. Aquinas: A Celibate Theory -- 7. Descartes: The Voyeurism of Rationalism -- 8. Locke: An Asexual Epistemology -- 9. Kant: The Epistemology of a Confirmed Bachelor -- 10. Fichte: The Wissenschaftslehre and Romantic Love -- 11. Schopenhauer: An Anti-sex Epistemology -- 12. Sartre: The Useless Passion and/or the Battle Eternal -- 13. De Beauvoir: Reproductive Knowing.".
- catalog title "Knowledge as sexual metaphor / George J. Seidel.".
- catalog type "text".