| Description |
xvi, 254 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Closing up the corpses -- Sex and the emergence of sexuality -- How to do the history of psychoanalysis : a reading of Freud's Three essays on the theory of sexuality -- The horror of monsters -- Styles of reasoning : from the history of art to the epistemology of science -- The epistemology of distorted evidence : problems around Carlo Ginzburg's historiography -- Foucault and the analysis of concepts -- On epistemology and archeology : from Canguilhem to Foucault -- Appendix: 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. |
| Subject |
Sex (Psychology) -- History.
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Sex (Psychology) |
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History. |
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Psychoanalysis and philosophy -- History.
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Psychoanalysis and philosophy. |
| Other Form: |
Online version: Davidson, Arnold I. (Arnold Ira), 1955- Emergence of sexuality. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2001 (OCoLC)606670057 |
| ISBN |
0674004590 |
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9780674004597 |
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