{"product_id":"feminine-symptom-aleatory-matter-in-the-aristotelian-cosmos","title":"Feminine Symptom: Aleatory Matter in the Aristotelian Cosmos","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eFeminine Symptom: Aleatory Matter in the Aristotelian Cosmos\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eEmanuela Bianchi\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9780823262199\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eModern Language Initiative\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2014\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition: \u003c\/b\u003eFirst Edition\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eExcellent, unmarked copy with little wear and tight binding. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe first English-language study of Aristotle's natural philosophy from a continental perspective, \u003cem\u003eThe Feminine Symptom\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAristotle'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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBianchi concludes by connecting her analysis to recent biological and materialist political thinking, and makes the case for a new, antiessentialist politics of aleatory feminism.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Modern Language Initiative","offers":[{"title":"Feminine Symptom: Aleatory Matter in the Aristotelian Cosmos | Emanuela Bianchi | Paperback | 9780823262199 | Used: Like New | Back Stacks I 1665732","offer_id":50785107050754,"sku":"1665732","price":40.71,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0609\/3327\/5906\/files\/91MegDC5BVL.jpg?v=1792246751","url":"https:\/\/boswellsbooks.com\/products\/feminine-symptom-aleatory-matter-in-the-aristotelian-cosmos","provider":"Boswell's Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}