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By Kate Parker,Norbert Sclippa,Mladen Kozul,Will McMorran,Natania Meeker,Eliane Robert Moraes,Christopher C. Nagle,John Phillips,Caroline Warman,Courtney Wennerstrom

ISBN-10: 1611486467

ISBN-13: 9781611486469

ISBN-10: 1611486483

ISBN-13: 9781611486483

Sade’s Sensibilities tells a brand new tale of 1 of the main enduring and debatable figures in ecu literature. mixing principles approximately subjectivity, id and ordinary philosophy with politics and pornography, D.A.F. de Sade has interested writers and readers for 2 hundred years, and his materialist account of the human has been extensively influential in post-structuralism, nihilism, and feminism. This new number of essays considers Sade’s Enlightenment legacy, either inside and past the narratives of radicalism and aberration that experience traditionally marked the learn of his oeuvre. From diverse issues of view, those essays argue that Sade engaged with and prompted conventional Enlightenment paradigms—particularly these relating to sensibility, subjectivity, and philosophy—as a lot as he resisted them. They therefore get better a Sade extra appropriate, even foundational to our twenty-first century realizing of modernity, selfhood, and group. In Sade’s Sensibilities Sade is not any longer a solitary, peripheral radical, yet an Enlightenment thinker in his personal right.

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