The Feminine Symptom : : Aleatory Matter in the Aristotelian Cosmos / / Emanuela Bianchi.
The first English-language study of Aristotle’s natural philosophy from a continental perspective, the Feminine Symptom takes as its starting point the problem of female offspring. If form is transmitted by the male and the female provides only matter, how is a female child produced? Aristotle answe...
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Bianchi, Emanuela, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut The Feminine Symptom : Aleatory Matter in the Aristotelian Cosmos / Emanuela Bianchi. New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2014] ©2014 1 online resource (336 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- contents -- acknowledgments -- Introduction -- chapter one. Aristotelian Causation, Reproduction, and Accident and Chance -- chapter two. Necessity and Automaton -- chapter three. The Errant Feminine in Plato’s Timaeus -- chapter four. The Physics of Sexual Difference in Aristotle and Irigaray -- chapter five. Motion and Gender in the Aristotelian Cosmos -- chapter six. Sexual Difference in Potentiality and Actuality -- Coda: Matters Arising -- notes -- bibliography -- index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star The first English-language study of Aristotle’s natural philosophy from a continental perspective, the Feminine Symptom takes as its starting point the problem of female offspring. If form is transmitted by the male and the female provides only matter, how is a female child produced? Aristotle answers that there must be some fault or misstep in the process.This inexplicable but necessary coincidence—sumptoma in Greek—defines the feminine symptom. Departing from the standard associations of male-activity-form and female-passivity-matter, Bianchi traces the operation of chance and spontaneity throughout Aristotle’s biology, physics, cosmology, and metaphysics and argues that it is not passive but aleatory matter— unpredictable, ungovernable, and acting against nature and teleology—that he continually allies with the feminine.Aristotle’s pervasive disparagement of the female as a mild form of monstrosity thus works to shore up his polemic against the aleatory and to consolidate patriarchal teleology in the face of atomism and Empedocleanism.Bianchi concludes by connecting her analysis to recent biological and materialist political thinking, and makes the case for a new, antiessentialist politics of aleatory feminism. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 03. Jan 2023) Teleology. Gender & Sexuality. Philosophy & Theory. Science Studies. PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical. bisacsh Chora. Irigaray. Materialism. deconstruction. feminism. gender. heidegger. psychoanalysis. Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Fordham University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015 9783110729030 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Fordham University Press Complete eBook-Package Pre-2014 9783111189604 print 9780823262199 https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823262212?locatt=mode:legacy https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780823262212 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780823262212/original |
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Frontmatter -- contents -- acknowledgments -- Introduction -- chapter one. Aristotelian Causation, Reproduction, and Accident and Chance -- chapter two. Necessity and Automaton -- chapter three. The Errant Feminine in Plato’s Timaeus -- chapter four. The Physics of Sexual Difference in Aristotle and Irigaray -- chapter five. Motion and Gender in the Aristotelian Cosmos -- chapter six. Sexual Difference in Potentiality and Actuality -- Coda: Matters Arising -- notes -- bibliography -- index |
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Frontmatter -- contents -- acknowledgments -- Introduction -- chapter one. Aristotelian Causation, Reproduction, and Accident and Chance -- chapter two. Necessity and Automaton -- chapter three. The Errant Feminine in Plato’s Timaeus -- chapter four. The Physics of Sexual Difference in Aristotle and Irigaray -- chapter five. Motion and Gender in the Aristotelian Cosmos -- chapter six. Sexual Difference in Potentiality and Actuality -- Coda: Matters Arising -- notes -- bibliography -- index |
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