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Sade - from Materialism to Pornography (Hardcover)
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Sade - from Materialism to Pornography (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment, 2002:01
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Sade’s personal fate has too long encouraged critics to
concentrate on his personal isolation and personal revolt.
Extraordinary as his life was, the light that it throws on his work
casts into shade the intellectual context that was much more
important to its generation than his actual experience. This book
is about how Sade took a pure version of eighteenth-century
materialism and rendered it into an even purer form of pornography.
The eternal yet unequal clashing of atomic bodies became the
endless torture of human ones. It traces the intellectual genealogy
that links Sade to his materialist forebears (d’Holbach,
Condillac, Buffon, Diderot, La Mettrie, Robinet, Delisle de Sales)
and shows how the germs of cruel pleasure were already present in
elements of their work, as much in their rhetoric and stylistics as
in their arguments. Sade, aided by his grounding in the
interpretative techniques of illicit clandestine and libertine
literature, read them attentively and developed their presentation
as well as their content into a flawlessly logical and
self-referential system. Thus the arrogant philosopher (the author
/ the libertine) did not just mouth his cruel positions but enacted
them, proving the behaviour of matter as he/she did so. This
reading of Sade’s work refers its principal elements – shape,
style and contents – back to the hardcore of materialism,
offering an account which, while not making it more tolerable,
renders it at once more accessible and more comprehensible.
General
Imprint: |
Voltaire Foundation
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Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Series: |
Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment, 2002:01 |
Release date: |
2002 |
First published: |
2002 |
Authors: |
Caroline Warman
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Dimensions: |
234 x 156mm (L x W) |
Format: |
Hardcover
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Pages: |
188 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-7294-0773-1 |
Categories: |
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LSN: |
0-7294-0773-X |
Barcode: |
9780729407731 |
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