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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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2014] ©2014 |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- 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