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Between the Universal and the Singular in Aristotle

Although most commentators on Aristotle's Metaphysics agree that form emerges as the primary principle of being, the ideological dimensions of this position are rarely considered critically. If an ideology is the tendency to reduce what is encountered to the logic of an idea implicitly conditioned by existing power structures, then for all its conceptual sophistication, the philological approach to Aristotle reinforces the underlying ideology of ancient Greek thought and action the moment it secures the primacy of form. As the principle that orders beings, form functions authoritatively to legitimate the laws of knowledge and the possibilities of action determined by...