Oliva Sabuco on Embodied Affects

Women and Freedom of Canonical Thought: A Propaedeutics

“…The latter set of norms regulates wider, biological and environmental ways of relating to each other. The natural philosophy of Oliva Sabuco can be seen, I suggested elsewhere (Lopes, 2022), as an instance of this canonical model of normativity.…”

“…Oliva Sabuco de Nantes Barrera (1562-1629) is famously associated with the book published in 1587 in Madrid, Spain, entitled Nueva Filosofia de la Naturaleza del Hombre, No Conocida Ni Alcançada de los Grandes Filosofos Antiguos: La Qual Mejora la Vida y la Salud Humana [New Philosophy of Human Nature Neither Known to nor Attained by the Great Ancient Philosophers, Which Will Improve Human Life and Health]. The authorship of this book remains a matter of controversy -the so-called "Sabuco Question" -for some who defend that the book is more likely to be a work of her father, Miguel Sabuco, and that feminists are misguided in attributing it to Oliva.3 I considered (Lopes, 2022) two readings of New Philosophy by Rosalía Romero Pérez (2008) and Gianna Pomata (2010). They have separately argued on what makes New Philosophy a distinctively woman's work.…”