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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 rules approximately subjectivity, id and traditional philosophy with politics and pornography, D.A.F. de Sade has involved 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 examine of his oeuvre. From various issues of view, those essays argue that Sade engaged with and encouraged conventional Enlightenment paradigms—particularly these regarding sensibility, subjectivity, and philosophy—as a lot as he resisted them. They therefore get well a Sade extra proper, even foundational to our twenty-first century figuring out of modernity, selfhood, and group. In Sade’s Sensibilities Sade isn't any longer a solitary, peripheral radical, yet an Enlightenment thinker in his personal right.

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