Coda: Matters Arising From the Aleatory Feminine to Aleatory Feminism

Matter, and thus the feminine, appears in the Aristotelian cosmos in three main guises. First, and paradigmatically, matter is the substrate of a change that necessarily comes from elsewhere. It is passive, what is acted upon, it is weighty and falls to earth, it is potential insofar as it lies pati...

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Published inThe Feminine Symptom p. 223
Main Author Bianchi, Emanuela
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published United States Fordham University Press 15.09.2014
University of Virginia Press
Subjects
Aleatory contracts
American philosophy
Ancient philosophy
Aristotelean ethics
Aristotelianism
Bilateral contracts
Civil law
Contract law
Contracts
Etiology
Femininity
Feminism
Feminist philosophy
Gender identity
Gender studies
Historical methodology
Historiography
History
History of philosophy
Law
Materialism
Metaphilosophy
Metaphysics
Ontology
Philosophy
Political ethics
Political science
Politics
Social sciences
Teleology
Western philosophy
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Summary:Matter, and thus the feminine, appears in the Aristotelian cosmos in three main guises. First, and paradigmatically, matter is the substrate of a change that necessarily comes from elsewhere. It is passive, what is acted upon, it is weighty and falls to earth, it is potential insofar as it lies patiently in wait for form, and is appropriate to and for that form. Second, there is the characterization inPhysics1.9 of matter asdesiring, asstretching out towardform: here it appears as a strange kind of subject of desire, even harboring its own obscure sort of movement. One
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