Marquis de Sade and Continental Philosophy

Inbunden, Engelska, 2019

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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.

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Utgivningsdatum:2019-04-14
Mått:138 x 216 x 18 mm
Vikt:508 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:232
Förlag:Edinburgh University Press
ISBN:9781474430692

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Lode Lauwaert is Postdoctoral Researcher and Lecturer in the Institute of Philosophy at the University of Leuven. He has been a visiting scholar at Boston College, Stellenbosch University and the University of Vienna. His research focuses on war, technology, and continental philosophy. He teaches, among others things, philosophical anthropology and philosophy of technology.

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According to Lauwaert, many French thinkers wrote about Sade’s work in relation to recurring themes and ideas in their own oeuvres. [...] He sees each of their engagements with Sade as embedded within some thematic concern in each of their own works, and thus posits that a stronger link can be established between Sade’s ideas and post-War French philosophy.

Innehållsförteckning

Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Godlessness, Purity, and Simulacra; 2. The Terror of Writing; 3. Apathy, Energy, and Transgression; 4. Ethics and Modernity; 5. Sadism as Formalism; 6. Literature and the Clinical; Conclusion; Bibliography; Endnotes.