BOOKS - Marquis de Sade and Continental Philosophy
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Marquis de Sade and Continental Philosophy
Author: Lode Lauwaert
Year: April 14, 2019
Format: PDF
File size: PDF 1.8 MB
Language: English
Year: April 14, 2019
Format: PDF
File size: PDF 1.8 MB
Language: English
He might be best known for sex and violence, but Lode Lauwaert shows that the Marquis du Sade sits at a crossroads of surprisingly disparate branches of western abstract art, Tom and Jerry, gnosticism, Kant's moral philosophy, romanticism, scholasticism, stoicism and more. To explore these links, Lauwaert reads six interpretations of Sade in French postwar philosophy - looking specifically at Pierre Klossowski, Maurice Blanchot, Georges Bataille, Jacques Lacan, Roland Barthes and Gilles Deleuze. Lauwaert shows how these interpretations of de Sade can be read as a lively introduction to a postmodern way of thinking that is often considered inaccessible, but which dominated the French intellectual scene after the Second World War.