| Description |
xvi, 254 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
1. Closing Up the Corpses -- 2. Sex and the Emergence of Sexuality -- 3. How to Do the History of Psychoanalysis: A Reading of Freud's Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality -- 4. The Horror of Monsters -- 5. Styles of Reasoning: From the History of Art to the Epistemology of Science -- 6. The Epistemology of Distorted Evidence: Problems around Carlo Ginzburg's Historiography -- 7. Foucault and the Analysis of Concepts -- 8. On Epistemology and Archeology: From Canguilhem to Foucault -- App. Foucault, Psychoanalysis, and Pleasure |
| Summary |
"In a book that moves between philosophy and history, and with lasting significance for both, Arnold Davidson elaborates a powerful new method for considering the history of concepts and the nature of scientific knowledge, a method he calls "historical epistemology." He applies this method to the history of sexuality, with important consequences for our understanding of desire, abnormality, and sexuality itself."--BOOK JACKET |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Sex (Psychology) -- History.
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Psychoanalysis and philosophy -- History.
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| LC no. |
2001024507 |
| ISBN |
0674004590 |
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