To get a handle on the problems we are dealing with here, we need a philosophy of history and of the mind. But it would be too strict of us to demand fully developed principles when speaking philosophically about politics. By studying events we learn to recognize what we find unacceptable, and this interpreted experience then becomes thesis and philosophy.

My remarks will concern the views on sexuality of two very different authors, Fritz Morgenthaler and Michel Foucault. To begin, let us consider the ways in which the works of the two are similar.

In their writings, both treated the issue of sexuality as central. To both, how one problematizes - understands or frames - one's own sexuality is the defining