A Manual of Epistemic Sex Or How to Write a Maxim

Conceived as a set of six dialogues between two inquisitive minds, the
Uncertain Old Man and the Certain Old Man, this book is a foray into the
mechanisms of meaning making and meaning breaking in maxims.
Encapsulating human experience, both communal and individual, maxims are
seen to effect the abstraction of personal emotion into behavioural
norm. The reflective and self-reflexive register of the dialogues is
interspersed with passages of highly poetic reminiscences about lost
love; these and the quasi-erotic pleasure derived from argumentation and
logic reveal the reasons why this book is conceived as a manual of
epistemic sex, which is, ultimately, a hymn to philosophy, the love of
wisdom.