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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.

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Author:   Henry Martyn Lloyd
Publisher:   Springer International Publishing AG
Imprint:   Springer International Publishing AG
Edition:   1st ed. 2018
Weight:   0.565kg
ISBN:  

9783319971957

ISBN 10:   3319971956
Pages:   305
Publication Date:   12 December 2018
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

 Part I: Introduction.- Chapter 1. The Problem of Sade.- Chapter 2. Sade’s Philosophical “System”- Part II: The Body of Sensibility: Ontology, Epistemology, Genre.- Chapter 3. Sensibility, Vitalist Medicine, and Embodied Epistemology.- Chapter 4. Sensibility, Genre, and the Roman Philosophique.- Introduction to Parts III & IV   “Natural” and “Artificial” Morality in the Eighteenth Century.- Part III: Moral Sense, Pleasant Sensations, and Libertine Sensibility.- Chapter 5. Moral Sense Theory in the French Enlightenment.- Chapter 6. Rousseau’s Knowing Heart, Sade’s Knowing Body.- Chapter 7. Heart and Head, Love and Libertinage, in Histoire de Juliette Coda.- Part IV: The Authority of Nature: Sade’s Use and Critique of the Natural Law Tradition.- Chapter  8. Natural Law, and the Law and Voice of Nature.- Chapter 9. Living it up in the State of Nature:Sade contra Hobbes and Rousseau.- Chapter 10. Sadean Natural Law in Histoire de Juliette.- Part V. Ethical Self-Fashioning and the Problem of Libertine Sociability in Histoire de Juliette; or, Histoire de Juliette comme roman d’apprentissage.- Chapter 11. Sade’s Theory of Libertine Askesis.- Chapter 12. Juliette’s Ambiguous Apprenticeship.- “It is only you, my angel, […] that I forgive for loving me”: The Limited Success of Juliette’s Affective Self-Cultivation.- Part VI: Conclusion.- Chapter 13. Against the Dialectic of Enlightenment; or, How Not to Read Kant avec Sade.- Index.

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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.

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