Ambiguous Antidotes : : Virtue as Vaccine for Vice in Early Modern Spain / / Hilaire Kallendorf.
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,...
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Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2017] ©2017 |
Year of Publication: | 2017 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Toronto Iberic
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (360 p.) |
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Other title: | Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Prologue: Virtuous Genealogies -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Blind Justice -- 2. Fleeting Fortitude -- 3. Charity as Greed -- 4. Loose Chastity -- 5. Prudence: Panacea or Placebo? -- 6. Class Trumps Sex: The (En)gendering of Virtue -- Conclusion -- Epilogue: Virtual Virtue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index of Comedias -- Index |
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Summary: | 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 Golden Age. Using the Derridian notion of pharmakon, a powerful substance that can serve as poison and cure, Kallendorf’s 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. |
Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
ISBN: | 9781487514648 9783111273655 9783110604252 9783110603255 9783110604184 9783110603187 9783110665949 |
DOI: | 10.3138/9781487514648 |
Access: | restricted access |
Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
Statement of Responsibility: | Hilaire Kallendorf. |