Knowledge as Sexual MetaphorSusquehanna University Press, 2000 - 192 pages This book takes a simple approach: if Merleau-Ponty is correct, namely, that the human perception takes place against the background of a sexed body consciousness, and if our concepts derive from our perceptions, including conceptions regarding human knowing as well, then one would expect correspondingly different epistemologies to derive from differently developed sexualities and/or sexual orientations. |
Table des matières
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Democritus The Reconstruction of Knowledge | 48 |
Plato An Erotic Theory of Knowledge | 56 |
Aristotle The Heterosexual Response | 65 |
Plotinus A Bisexual Theory | 76 |
Aquinas A Celibate Theory | 87 |
Descartes The Voyeurism of Rationalism | 98 |
Locke An Asexual Epistemology | 112 |
Fichte The Wissenschaftslehre and Romantic Love | 129 |
Schopenhauer An Antisex Epistemology | 142 |
Sartre The Useless Passion andor the Battle Eternal | 155 |
De Beauvoir Reproductive Knowing | 169 |
Notes | 178 |
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Kant The Epistemology of a Confirmed Bachelor | 121 |
Expressions et termes fréquents
absolute activity agent intellect apriori Aquinas Aquinas's Aristotle Aristotle's beauty Beauvoir becomes body cause cognition color consciousness deep metaphor Democritus Descartes Descartes's desire divine Enneads epistemology eros Essay example existence experience female feminine feminist Fichte Fichte's finite For-itself Freud Greek Hegel Heidegger human knowing human sexuality ideal ideas identity In-itself insists intelligence Kant Kant's KdrV knower Locke Locke's lover male marriage masculine Master-Slave dialectic meaning Merleau-Ponty mind nature nonself notion object ocularist one's Other's freedom passion passive perceived perception Phenomenology philosophy Plato Plotinus Plotinus's position possible intellect potential primary qualities principle process whereby produce psychē reason reconstruction relation relationship representation represents romantic love Sartre Sartre's Schopenhauer Schopenhauer's secondary qualities seen sensation sense sensible sexed body-consciousness sexual metaphor Simone de Beauvoir simply solipsism sort soul theory of knowledge thing-in-itself things tion transcendence truth understanding union unlike will-to-live Wittgenstein woman word
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Page 25 - The original of them all, is that which we call SENSE, for there is no conception in a man's mind, which hath not at first, totally or by parts, been begotten upon the organs of sense.
Page 17 - It will be no excuse to an idle and untoward servant, who would not attend his business by candlelight, to plead that he had not broad sun-shine. The candle that is set up in us, shines bright enough for all our purposes.