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.
In Davidson's view, it was the emergence of a science of
sexuality that made it possible, even inevitable, for us to become
preoccupied with our true sexuality. Historical epistemology
attempts to reveal how this new form of experience that we call
"sexuality" is linked to the emergence of new structures of
knowledge, and especially to a new style of reasoning and the
concepts employed within it. Thus Davidson shows how, starting in
the second half of the nineteenth century, a new psychiatric style
of reasoning about diseases emerges that makes possible, among
other things, statements about sexual perversion that quickly
become commonplace in discussions of sexuality.
Considering a wide range of examples, from Thomas Aquinas to
Freud, Davidson develops the methodological lessons of Georges
Canguilhem and Michel Foucault in order to analyze the history of
our experience of normativity and its deviations.
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