Author: Hilaire Kallendorf File Type: pdf Chastity and lust, charity and greed, humility and pride, are but some of the virtues and vices that have been in tension since Prudentius Psychomachia, written in the fifth century. While there has been widespread agreement within a given culture about what exactly constitutes a virtue or a vice, are these categories so consistent after all?In Ambiguous Antidotes, Hilaire Kallendorf explores the receptions of Virtues in the realm of moral philosophy and the artistic production it influenced during the Spanish Gold Age. Using the Derridian notion of pharmakon, a powerful substance that can serve as poison and cure, Kallendorfs original and pioneering insight into five key Virtues (justice, fortitude, chastity, charity, and prudence) reveals an intriguing but messy relationship. Rather than being seen as unambiguously good antidotes, the Virtues are instead contested spaces where competing sets of values jostled for primacy and hegemony. Employing an arsenal of tools drawn from literary theory and cultural studies Ambiguous Antidotes confirms that you can in fact have too much of a good thing. **ReviewThere are many things to like about Ambiguous Antidotes Kallendorfs genial voice, the scope of the argument, the breathtaking range, the coverage of subjects from political philosophy, to theology, to poor relief, to medicine. With stunning erudition, Kallendorf ranges across early modern textual production with a refreshing curiosity.(Francisco Lopez-Martin, Denison University) This is a timely and important book that, in this time of social polarization and political crisis, reminds us that our social fabric depends on our daily practice of the classical virtues. Prof. Kallendorf builds on her own biography and her deep knowledge of the Golden Age tradition to offer us another outstanding piece of scholarship.. (Juan-Luis Suarez, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, Western University) About the Author Hilaire Kallendorf is Professor of Hispanic and Religious Studies at Texas A&M University.

Author: Mary Evans File Type: pdf At no point in recorded history has there been an absence of intense, and heated, discussion about the subject of how to conduct relations between women and men. This Handbook provides a comprehensive guide to these omnipresent issues and debates, mapping the present and future of thinking about feminist theory.The chapters gathered here present the state of the art in scholarship in the field, coveringullEpistemology and marginalityllLiterary, visual and cultural representationsllSexualityllMacro and microeconomics of genderllConflict and peace.lulThe most important consensus in this volume is that a central organizing tenet of feminism is its willingness to examine the ways in which gender and relations between women and men have been (and are) organized. The authors bring a shared commitment to the critical appraisal of gender relations, as well as a recognition that to think theoretically is not to detach concerns from lived experience but to extend the possibilities of understanding. With this focus on theory and theorizing about the world in which we live, this Handbook asks us, across all disciplines and situations, to abandon our taken-for-granted assumptions about the world and interrogate both the origin and the implications of our ideas about gender relations and feminism*. * It is an essential reference work for advanced students and academics not only of feminist theory, but of gender and sexuality across the humanities and social sciences.**