LEADER 03837nam 2200757 450 001 9910786806803321 005 20230803204436.0 010 $a0-8232-6644-3 010 $a0-8232-6221-9 010 $a0-8232-6222-7 024 7 $a10.1515/9780823262212 035 $a(CKB)3710000000224276 035 $a(EBL)3239929 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001292512 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11949816 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001292512 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11284752 035 $a(PQKB)10269792 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0001111251 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3239929 035 $a(OCoLC)889679065 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse37913 035 $a(DE-B1597)555180 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780823262212 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3239929 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10913501 035 $a(OCoLC)923764504 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1961790 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1961790 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000224276 100 $a20140829h20142014 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|nu---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe feminine symptom $ealeatory matter in the Aristotelian cosmos /$fEmanuela Bianchi 205 $aFirst edition. 210 1$aNew York :$cFordham University Press,$d2014. 210 4$dİ2014 215 $a1 online resource (332 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8232-6219-7 311 $a0-8232-6218-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tcontents --$tacknowledgments --$tIntroduction --$tchapter one. Aristotelian Causation, Reproduction, and Accident and Chance --$tchapter two. Necessity and Automaton --$tchapter three. The Errant Feminine in Plato?s Timaeus --$tchapter four. The Physics of Sexual Difference in Aristotle and Irigaray --$tchapter five. Motion and Gender in the Aristotelian Cosmos --$tchapter six. Sexual Difference in Potentiality and Actuality --$tCoda: Matters Arising --$tnotes --$tbibliography --$tindex 330 $aThe 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. 606 $aTeleology 610 $aChora. 610 $aIrigaray. 610 $aMaterialism. 610 $adeconstruction. 610 $afeminism. 610 $agender. 610 $aheidegger. 610 $apsychoanalysis. 615 0$aTeleology. 676 $a185 700 $aBianchi$b Emanuela$01542697 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910786806803321 996 $aThe feminine symptom$93795654 997 $aUNINA