Aristotle On The Matter Of Form Feminist Metaphysics Of Generation Adriel M Trott by Adriel M. Trott 9781474455251, 1474455255 instant download after payment.

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• Offers a clear and innovative account of Aristotle's biological works, informed by Continental philosophy and inflected by feminist interests and concerns
• Contextualises Aristotle's views of gender in ancient Greek mythology, medicine and early philosophy
• Situates its argument in the debates between Luce Irigaray and Judith Butler on the meaning and role of matter in the history of philosophy
• Challenges the gender binary by challenging the metaphysical binary of form and matter: an association that can be traced to Aristotle
• Showcases how Aristotle's account is fundamentally phenomenological

Adriel M. Trott challenges the wholesale acceptance of the view that nature operates in Aristotle's work on a craft model, which implies that matter has no power of its own. Instead, she argues for a robust sense of matter in Aristotle in response to feminist critiques. She finds resources for thinking the female's contribution – and the female – on its own terms and not as the contrary to form, or the male.

Using the image of a Möbius strip, Trott considers how semen and menses flow through Aristotle's account of generation. She weaves together scholarship on matter, form and generation in Aristotle; on the mythological, Hippocratic and Pre-Socratic treatments of the feminine and the elemental; and on feminist readings of material. In doing so, she demonstrates the interdependence of form and matter in Aristotle's biology.