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Marian Hobson's work has made a seminal contribution to our
understanding of the European Enlightenment, and of Diderot and
Rousseau in particular. This book presents her most important
articles in a single volume, translated into English for the first
time. Hobson's distinctive approach is to take a given text or
problematique and position it within its intellectual, historical
and polemical context. From close analysis of the underlying
conceptual structures of literary texts, she offers a unique
insight into the vibrant networks of people and ideas at work
throughout Europe, and across disciplinary boundaries as diverse as
literature and mathematics, medicine and music. In their
translations of Hobson's essays, Kate Tunstall and Caroline Warman
present the primary sources in both the original eighteenth-century
French and modern English, making the detail of these debates
accessible to everyone, from the specialist to the student,
whatever their academic discipline or interest.
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.
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Sade's Sensibilities (Hardcover)
Kate Parker, Norbert Sclippa; Contributions by Mladen Kozul, Will McMorran, Natania Meeker, …
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R3,113
Discovery Miles 31 130
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Sade's Sensibilities tells a new story of one of the most enduring
and controversial figures in European literature. Blending ideas
about subjectivity, identity and natural philosophy with politics
and pornography, D.A.F. de Sade has fascinated writers and readers
for two hundred years, and his materialist account of the human
condition has been widely influential in post-structuralism,
nihilism, and feminism. This new collection of essays considers
Sade's Enlightenment legacy, both within and beyond the narratives
of radicalism and aberration that have historically marked the
study of his oeuvre. From different points of view, these essays
argue that Sade engaged with and influenced traditional
Enlightenment paradigms-particularly those related to sensibility,
subjectivity, and philosophy-as much as he resisted them. They thus
recover a Sade more relevant, even foundational to our twenty-first
century understanding of modernity, selfhood, and community. In
Sade's Sensibilities Sade is no longer a solitary, peripheral
radical, but an Enlightenment philosopher in his own right.
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Sade's Sensibilities (Paperback)
Kate Parker, Norbert Sclippa; Contributions by Mladen Kozul, Will McMorran, Natania Meeker, …
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R1,791
Discovery Miles 17 910
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Sade's Sensibilities tells a new story of one of the most enduring
and controversial figures in European literature. Blending ideas
about subjectivity, identity and natural philosophy with politics
and pornography, D.A.F. de Sade has fascinated writers and readers
for two hundred years, and his materialist account of the human
condition has been widely influential in post-structuralism,
nihilism, and feminism. This new collection of essays considers
Sade's Enlightenment legacy, both within and beyond the narratives
of radicalism and aberration that have historically marked the
study of his oeuvre. From different points of view, these essays
argue that Sade engaged with and influenced traditional
Enlightenment paradigms-particularly those related to sensibility,
subjectivity, and philosophy-as much as he resisted them. They thus
recover a Sade more relevant, even foundational to our twenty-first
century understanding of modernity, selfhood, and community. In
Sade's Sensibilities Sade is no longer a solitary, peripheral
radical, but an Enlightenment philosopher in his own right.
In The Dark Thread, scholars examine a set of important and
perennial narrative motifs centered on violence within the family
as they have appeared in French, English, Spanish, and American
literatures. Over fourteen essays, contributors highlight the
connections between works from early modernity and subsequent texts
from the eighteenth through the twentieth centuries, in which
incidents such as murder, cannibalism, poisoning, the burial of the
living, the failed burial of the dead, and subsequent apparitions
of ghosts that haunt the household unite “high” and “low”
cultural traditions. This book questions the traditional separation
between the highly honored genre of tragedy and the less respected
and generally less well-known genres of histoires tragiques, gothic
tales and novels, and horror stories. Published by University of
Delaware Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.
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