The Metaphysics of De Sade (Hardcover)

Conor Husbands

ISBN 10: 3032080118 / ISBN 13: 9783032080110

Published by Springer Nature Switzerland AG, 2025

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Hardcover. This book present Sades core metaphysical commitments as a coherent and logical system. It analyses his central ontological principle of entropy and shows that Sade endorsed neither egoism nor materialism but was a forerunner to 19th Century thermodynamics. It then turns to his philosophy of money and finance, including his critique of phenomenology, his axiology, and his attack on theories of expected utility. It concludes by considering the extent to which a normative ethical theory can be salvaged from his otherwise largely deconstructive opus.The Metaphysics of De Sade is essential reading for all scholars and researchers of early modern philosophy. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Metaphysics of De Sade (Hardcover)
• Publisher: Springer Nature Switzerland AG
• Publication Date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3032080118
• ISBN 13: 9783032080110
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

This book present Sade’s core metaphysical commitments as a coherent and logical system. It analyses his central ontological principle of entropy and shows that Sade endorsed neither egoism nor materialism but was a forerunner to 19th Century thermodynamics. It then turns to his philosophy of money and finance, including his critique of phenomenology, his axiology, and his attack on theories of expected utility. It concludes by considering the extent to which a normative ethical theory can be salvaged from his otherwise largely deconstructive opus.

The Metaphysics of De Sade is essential reading for all scholars and researchers of early modern philosophy.

About the Author

Conor Husbands is a UK based philosophical scholar with a broad variety of metaphysical research interests. He has previously published  The Temporality of Determinacy with Palgrave (2022). His other previous publications include Klossowski’s Semotic of Intensity: Time, Language and the Vicious Circle (2020) and Esposito’s temporality of finance: Endogeneity and revisability in derivative transactions (2021). He holds an MPhysPhil in Physics & Philosophy from the University of Oxford.