Abstract

Although sexual difference manifests in innumerable problems that compel our immediate attention – inthe multiplicity of discourses that surround, infuse, and delimit it; in the repeated, sometimes compulsiveperformances that give rise to its various forms and deformations; in the institutionalizations that seek tocodify and regulate its possible meanings and relevance; in the increasingly many domains where it servesas an axis of problematics and a locus of contestations – may one yet pose the question: Is sexual differencestill, if it ever was, a question? In the midst of a plentitude of voices that structure, if not saturate, the fieldsin which sexual difference either plays a pivotal role or maintains an almost muted insistence, may one yetwonder whether sexual difference is or can be primordially understood as question? In seeking toretrieve a certain suppressed, if not forgotten ethos of questioning comportment toward the fundamentaldisquietude of sexual difference, this paper proceeds toward an investigative engagement with Aristotle’sinquiries concerning sexual difference