Defined narrowly, epistemology is the study of knowledge and justified belief and according to a historical epistemology, the appropriate questions for a history of sexuality are: why have we constituted sexuality as the ‘natural’ ground of our identities?
Why do we oppose culture and desire, mind and body, history and eros? And why is sex so important to us anyway?
Given the heritage of Aristotle’s homo civis, Augustine’s homo sanctus, Benjamin Franklin and Marx’s homo faber, Gradgrind’s homo economicus, why has the late 20th-century culture of narcissism embraced homo sexualis as its definition of human essence.
Any thoughts on this?
Why do we oppose culture and desire, mind and body, history and eros? And why is sex so important to us anyway?
Given the heritage of Aristotle’s homo civis, Augustine’s homo sanctus, Benjamin Franklin and Marx’s homo faber, Gradgrind’s homo economicus, why has the late 20th-century culture of narcissism embraced homo sexualis as its definition of human essence.
Any thoughts on this?
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