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.
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