Sade’s Philosophical System in its Enlightenment Context

Lloyd, Henry Martyn

ISBN 10: 3319971956 / ISBN 13: 9783319971957

Published by Palgrave Macmillan, 2018

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Sade?s Philosophical System in its Enlightenment Context
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3319971956
• ISBN 13: 9783319971957
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: New
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  • Philosophy

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Synopsis

This book connects the philosophy of the Marquis de Sade―one of the most notorious, iconic, and yet poorly-understood figures within the history of European thought―with the broader themes of the Enlightenment. Rather than seeing himself as a mere pornographer, Sade understood himself as continuing the progressive tradition of French Enlightenment philosophy. Sade aspired to be a philosophe. This book uses intellectual history and the history of philosophy to reconstruct Sade’s philosophical ‘system’ and its historical context. Within the period’s discourse of sensibility Sade draws on the philosophical and the literary to form a relatively sophisticated ‘system’ which he deploys to critically engage with the two major strands of eighteenth-century ethical theory: the moral sense and natural law traditions. This work is of interest to: ‘Continental’ Philosophy, Critical Theory, French Studies, the History of Eighteenth-Century Philosophy, Literary Studies, the History of Moral Philosophy, and Enlightenment Studies.

About the Author

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.