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Book The Thought and Themes of the Marquis de Sade

Download or read book The Thought and Themes of the Marquis de Sade written by Lorna Berman and published by [s.l. : s.n.], c1971 (Kitchener, Ont. : Ainsworth Press). This book was released on 1971 with total page 744 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Marquis de Sade and the Avant Garde

Download or read book The Marquis de Sade and the Avant Garde written by Alyce Mahon and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-05-26 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is the first book to examine the cultural history of Marquis de Sade's (1740-1814) philosophical ideas and their lasting influence on political and artistic debates. An icon of free expression, Sade lived through France's Reign of Terror, and his writings offer both a pitiless mirror on humanity and a series of subversive metaphors that allow for the exploration of political, sexual, and psychological terror. Generations of avant-garde writers and artists have responded to Sade's philosophy as a means of liberation and as a radical engagement with social politics and sexual desire, writing fiction modelled on Sade's novels, illustrating luxury editions of his works, and translating his ideas into film, photography, and painting. In The Sadean Imagination, Alyce Mahon examines how Sade used images and texts as forms that could explore and dramatize the concept of terror on political, physical, and psychic levels, and how avant-garde artists have continued to engage in a complex dialogue with his works. Studying Sade's influence on art from the French Revolution through the twentieth century, Mahon examines works ranging from Anne Desclos's The Story of O, to images, texts, and films by Man Ray, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Guillaume Apollinaire, Jean-Jacques Lebel, and Peter Brook. She also discusses writings and responses to Sade by feminist theorists including Angela Carter and Judith Butler. Throughout, she shows how Sade's work challenged traditional artistic expectations and pushed the boundaries of the body and the body politic, inspiring future artists, writers, and filmmakers to imagine and portray the unthinkable"--

Book The Marquis de Sade  A Very Short Introduction

Download or read book The Marquis de Sade A Very Short Introduction written by John Phillips and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2005-07-28 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discussing the 'real' Marquis de Sade from his mythical and demonic reputation, John Phillips examines Sade's life and work his libertine novels, his championing of atheism, and his uniqueness in bringing the body and sex back into philosophy.

Book The Misfortunes of Virtue and Other Early Tales

Download or read book The Misfortunes of Virtue and Other Early Tales written by Marquis de Sade and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 1999-07-01 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The name of the Marquis de Sade is synonymous with the blackest corners of the human soul, a byword for all that is foulest in human conduct. In his bleak, claustrophobic universe, there is no God, no morality, no human affection, and no hope. Power is given to the strong, and the strong are murderers, torturers, and tyrants. No quarter is given; compassion is the virtue of the weak. Yet Sade was a man of savage intelligence who carried the philosophy of the French Enlightenment to its logical extreme. His writings effectively release the individual from all social and moral constraint: for many, Sade is the Great Libertarian. The Victorians considered him `Divine' and Apollinaire called him `the freest spirit'; the Surrealists recognised him as a founding father, and he is a key figure in the history of modernism and post-modernism. With Freud and Marx, Sade has been one of the crucial shaping influences on this century, and reactions to him continue to be extreme. But he has always been more talked about than read. This selection of his early writings, some making their first appearance in this new translation, reveals the full range of Sade's sobering moods and considerable talents. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

Book Marquis de Sade and Continental Philosophy

Download or read book Marquis de Sade and Continental Philosophy written by Lode Lauwaert and published by EUP. This book was released on 2020-11-30 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reads six interpretations of the Marquis de Sade in French post-war philosophy: Klossowski, Blanchot, Bataille, Lacan, Barthes, and Deleuze to show how he sits at a crossroads of surprisingly disparate branches of western culture, from Tom and Jerry to Kant's moral philosophy.

Book Sade   s Philosophical System in its Enlightenment Context

Download or read book Sade s Philosophical System in its Enlightenment Context written by Henry Martyn Lloyd and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-09-05 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book connects the philosophy of the Marquis de Sade—one of the most notorious, iconic, and yet poorly-understood figures within the history of European thought—with the broader themes of the Enlightenment. Rather than seeing himself as a mere pornographer, Sade understood himself as continuing the progressive tradition of French Enlightenment philosophy. Sade aspired to be a philosophe. This book uses intellectual history and the history of philosophy to reconstruct Sade’s philosophical ‘system’ and its historical context. Within the period’s discourse of sensibility Sade draws on the philosophical and the literary to form a relatively sophisticated ‘system’ which he deploys to critically engage with the two major strands of eighteenth-century ethical theory: the moral sense and natural law traditions. This work is of interest to: ‘Continental’ Philosophy, Critical Theory, French Studies, the History of Eighteenth-Century Philosophy, Literary Studies, the History of Moral Philosophy, and Enlightenment Studies.

Book Dialogue Between a Priest and a Dying Man

Download or read book Dialogue Between a Priest and a Dying Man written by marquis de Sade and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book INTRODUCING Marquis de Sade

    Book Details:
  • Author : Stuart Hood and Graham Crowley
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1995
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 178 pages

Download or read book INTRODUCING Marquis de Sade written by Stuart Hood and Graham Crowley and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book 120 Days of Sodom

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  • Author : Marquis de Sade
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2013-02-18
  • ISBN : 1625585985
  • Pages : 640 pages

Download or read book 120 Days of Sodom written by Marquis de Sade and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-02-18 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 120 Days of Sodom by Marquis de Sade relates the story of four wealthy men who enslave 24 mostly teenaged victims and sexually torture them while listening to stories told by old prostitutes. The book was written while Sade was imprisoned in the Bastille and the manuscript was lost during the storming of the Bastille. Sade wrote that he "wept tears of blood" over the manuscript's loss. Many consider this to be Sade crowing acheivement.

Book The Crimes of Love

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  • Author : Marquis de Sade
  • Publisher : OUP Oxford
  • Release : 2005-03-10
  • ISBN : 0191604682
  • Pages : 400 pages

Download or read book The Crimes of Love written by Marquis de Sade and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2005-03-10 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Senneval, you see in me your sister, the girl you seduced at Nancy, the woman who murdered your son, the wife of your own father and the ignoble creature who sent your mother to the gallows...' Who but the Marquis de Sade would write, not of the pain, tragedy, and joy of love but of its crimes? Murder, seduction, and incest are among the cruel rewards for selfless love in his stories; tragedy, despair, and death the inevitable outcome. Sade's villains will stop at nothing to satisfy their depraved passions, and they in turn suffer under the thrall of love. Psychologically astute, and defiantly unconventional, these stories show Sade at his best. A skilled and artful storyteller, he is also an intellectual who asks questions about society, about ourselves, and about life, for which we have yet to find the answers. This new selection includes 'An Essay on Novels', Sade's penetrating survey of the novelist's art. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

Book The Mystified Magistrate

Download or read book The Mystified Magistrate written by marquis de Sade and published by Peter Owen Publishers. This book was released on 1963 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Marquis de Sade   An Essay

    Book Details:
  • Author : Simone de Beauvoir
  • Publisher : Bushnell Press
  • Release : 2000-10
  • ISBN : 1446504662
  • Pages : 236 pages

Download or read book The Marquis de Sade An Essay written by Simone de Beauvoir and published by Bushnell Press. This book was released on 2000-10 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Marquis de Sade and Continental Philosophy

Download or read book Marquis de Sade and Continental Philosophy written by Lauwaert Lode Lauwaert and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2019-03-21 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He might be best known for sex and violence, but Lode Lauwaert shows that the Marquis du Sade sits at a crossroads of surprisingly disparate branches of western culture: abstract art, Tom and Jerry, gnosticism, Kant's moral philosophy, romanticism, scholasticism, stoicism and more. To explore these links, Lauwaert reads six interpretations of Sade in French postwar philosophy - looking specifically at Pierre Klossowski, Maurice Blanchot, Georges Bataille, Jacques Lacan, Roland Barthes and Gilles Deleuze. Lauwaert shows how these interpretations of de Sade can be read as a lively introduction to a postmodern way of thinking that is often considered inaccessible, but which dominated the French intellectual scene after the Second World War.

Book La Surjouissance

Download or read book La Surjouissance written by Ryan James Swankie and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reduced space is an important theme in the works of the Marquis de Sade including his epic novel The new Justine and his pornographic performance piece Philosophy in the bedroom including the political/social treatise "Frenchmen, yet another effort is needed if you want to be a Republic". Through out his life Sade attempted to overcome reduction of space with writing. Tragically, his writing often prolonged the reduction of his space by sending him to or keeping him in prison. It is my theory that his violent, pornographic writing style is "une écriture de surjouissance" or "a writing of over-coming". Surjouissance is my theory for Sade's method, based on textual analysis of Sade's main works, that he combines through his syntactic structure, narrative voice, and semantic themes the orgasm of the mind represented by philosophical discourse with the orgasm of the body represented textually by orgiastic scenes and the language of orgasm to reach an ultimate state of complete freedom. In the political pamphlet "Frenchmen yet another effort ... ", Sade attempts to set this theory of surjouissance, or this transcendent state reached through the combination of physical and philosophical orgasm, as the political foundation for a new republic. Does he succeed in creating a viable political formula for a sustainable republic? My argument states absolutely not. His aristocratic elitism narrows his voice. But he does propose the combination of sexual, literary, and intellectual freedoms as a possible polemic against any form of reduced space.

Book Marquis de Sade

    Book Details:
  • Author : Iwan Bloch
  • Publisher : The Minerva Group, Inc.
  • Release : 2002-03
  • ISBN : 1589635671
  • Pages : 285 pages

Download or read book Marquis de Sade written by Iwan Bloch and published by The Minerva Group, Inc.. This book was released on 2002-03 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A detailed, analytical study of the life and times of this brilliant but bizarre personality (and the sexually erotic times he lived in), containing the essence of all his writings, based on research by Bloch in private archives of the French Government, and Bloch's discovery of de Sade's unpublished manuscript of 120 Days of Sodom in Marseilles. The work contains a precis of the 120 Days of Sodom, the first attempt systematically to catalog and describe abnormal sexual behavior -- 100 years before Krafft-Ebing. A serious academic study of France during de Sade's time, its sexual morality, de Sade's works, and the role of sadism in literature, etc., this biography precedes de Beauvoir's Faut-il Brule de Sade? and began the resuscitation and modern study of De Sade. The author Iwan Bloch, a German physician, won a distinguished name in the world of science in the fields, of medical history and anthropology.

Book Gothic Tales of the Marquis de Sade

Download or read book Gothic Tales of the Marquis de Sade written by Margaret Crosland and published by Peter Owen Publishers. This book was released on 2010-01-11 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of de Sade's stories utilizing gothic conventions and questioning sexual and societal mores The notorious author of pornographic novels and a sexual pervert who spent much of his life in prison and whose name was unmentionable in civilized circles, only in recent times has the Marquis come to be seen as misunderstood—essentially a moralist, his exploration of the so-called dark side of the human psyche remains as relevant to our society as it was to his own. This collection will provide an excellent introduction to Sade’s fiction; these accessible stories range from the dramatic novellaEugenie de Franval, in which a father’s criminal passion for his daughter leads to intrigue, abduction, and murder, to comic tales such asThe Husband Who Plays Priest, concerning a lecherous monk who finds an ingenious way to combine clerical duties with secular pleasures. De Sade’s gift as a humorist are much in evidence, as is his particular delight in unusual marital situations—which invariably lead to the most diverting conclusions.

Book Loaded

    Book Details:
  • Author : marquis de Sade
  • Publisher : Random House
  • Release : 1991-07-04
  • ISBN : 0099629607
  • Pages : 816 pages

Download or read book Loaded written by marquis de Sade and published by Random House. This book was released on 1991-07-04 with total page 816 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 120 Days of Sodom is the Marquis de Sade's masterpiece. A still unsurpassed catalogue of sexual perversions and the first systematic exploration of the psychopathology of sex, it was written during Sade's lengthy imprisonment for sexual deviancy and blasphemy and then lost after the storming of the Bastille during the French Revolution in 1789. Later rediscovered, the manuscript remained unpublished until 1936 and is now introduced by Simone de Beauvoir's landmark essay, 'Must We Burn Sade?' Unique in its enduring capacity to shock and provoke, The 120 Days of Sodom must stand as one of the most controversial books ever written, and a fine example of the Libertine novel, a genre inspired by eroticism and anti-establishmentarianism, that effectively ended with the French Revolution.