Sade’s Philosophical System in its Enlightenment Context

Henry Martyn Lloyd is Junior Research Fellow in Enlightenment Studies at the University of Sydney and an Honorary Research Fellow in Philosophy at the University of Queensland, Australia. He specialises in the History of Philosophy with a particular interest in the French Enlightenment and in traditions of ‘Continental’ philosophy.

• Part I: Introduction.- Chapter 1. The Problem of Sade.- Chapter 2. Sade’s Philosophical “System”- Part II: The Body of Sensibility: Ontology, Epistemology, Genre.- Chapter 3. Sensibility, Vitalist Medicine, and Embodied Epistemology.- Chapter 4. Sensibility, Genre, and the Roman Philosophique.- Introduction to Parts III & IV   “Natural” and “Artificial” Morality in the Eighteenth Century.- Part III: Moral Sense, Pleasant Sensations, and Libertine Sensibility.- Chapter 5. Moral Sense Theory in the French Enlightenment.- Chapter 6. Rousseau’s Knowing Heart, Sade’s Knowing Body.- Chapter 7. Heart and Head, Love and Libertinage, in Histoire de Juliette Coda.- Part IV: The Authority of Nature: Sade’s Use and Critique of the Natural Law Tradition.- Chapter  8. Natural Law, and the Law and Voice of Nature.- Chapter 9. Living it up in the State of Nature:Sade contra Hobbes and Rousseau.- Chapter 10. Sadean Natural Law in Histoire de Juliette.- Part V. Ethical Self-Fashioning and the Problem of Libertine Sociability in Histoire de Juliette; or, Histoire de Juliette comme roman d’apprentissage.- Chapter 11. Sade’s Theory of Libertine Askesis.- Chapter 12. Juliette’s Ambiguous Apprenticeship.- “It is only you, my angel, […] that I forgive for loving me”: The Limited Success of Juliette’s Affective Self-Cultivation.- Part VI: Conclusion.- Chapter 13. Against the Dialectic of Enlightenment; or, How Not to Read Kant avec Sade.- Index.