{"product_id":"the-feminine-symptom-emanuela-bianchi-9780823262182","title":"The Feminine Symptom: Aleatory Matter in the Aristotelian Cosmos","description":"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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Emanuela Bianchi\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0823262189\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780823262182\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Modern Language Initiative\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/15\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 336\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.25lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.00w x 1.00d","brand":"Emanuela Bianchi","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44829320577279,"sku":"9780823262182","price":85.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_3083b0fe-95bf-4e12-b7b4-6f6a423a9130.jpg?v=1708450460","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-feminine-symptom-emanuela-bianchi-9780823262182","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}