Knowledge As Sexual Metaphor

"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."--BOOK JACKET.