The feminine symptom : aleatory matter in the Aristotelian cosmos /

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The Feminine Symptom takes as its starting point the problem of female offspring for Aristotle: 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 nec...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Bianchi, Emanuela (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Fordham University Press, 2014.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Aristotle.
Aristoteles > v384-v322
Teleology.
Finalité.
PHILOSOPHY > Political.
PHILOSOPHY > History & Surveys > Ancient & Classical.
Feminismus
Geschlechtsunterschied
Teleologie
Chora.
Irigaray.
Materialism.
deconstruction.
feminism.
gender.
heidegger.
psychoanalysis.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Aristotelian causation, reproduction, and accident and chance
  • Necessity and Automaton: aleatory matter and the feminine symptom
  • The errant feminine in Plato's Timaeus
  • The physics of sexual different in Aristotle and Irigaray
  • Motion and gender in the Aristotelian cosmos
  • Sexual difference in potentiality and actuality
  • Coda: matters arising: from the aleatory feminine to aleatory feminism.

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