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The most current multidisciplinary and multivocal engagement with Sade’s enduring influences on modernism and the philosophical need for continued analysis of his work and the questions it raises. From Lacan to Dalí, through Simone de Beauvoir, Beckett, Horkheimer, Burroughs, Pasolini, Foucault, Deleuze, up to Žižek, the Marquis de Sade’s influence and impact on modernism and modern thinking is hard to measure. Understanding Sade, Understanding Modernism presents its readers with a chance to reflect on the importance of this radical oeuvre from different perspectives. Contributors examine Sadean literature and thought through some of its main texts (including 120 Days of Sodom, History of Juliette, The Crimes of Love, and Philosophy in the Boudoir) in a series of comparative essays that not only examine Sade’s influence in French, European, and American thought, but also critique it in the context of some of modern philosophy’s most relevant subjects: ecology, nature, universalism, and the links between ethics and aesthetics. The final section identifies key concepts and notions within Sade's corpus in a series of entries offering context and a discussion of their relevance for current thought.

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Author:   Dr. or Prof. James Martell (Lyon College, USA) ,  Dr. Laci Mattison (Florida Gulf Coast University, USA) ,  Paul Ardoin (University of Texas at San Antonio, USA) ,  Professor S. E. Gontarski (Florida State University, USA)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Imprint:   Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Dimensions:   Width: 15.80cm , Height: 2.60cm , Length: 23.20cm
Weight:   0.620kg
ISBN:  

9798765109151

Pages:   320
Publication Date:   06 February 2025
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  College/higher education ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

"Introduction James Martell, Lyon College, USA Part I: Conceptualizing Sade 1. Se produire libertin (How to make a Libertine): The Care of the Libertine Self in Histoire de Juliette Martin Lloyd 2. Sade’s 120 Journées Or the Philosophical (Re)Creation of a (New) Totality James Martell, Lyon College, USA 3. Modernes, encore un effort… Can a Girl Emancipate Herself from Sade’s Boudoir? Fernanda Negrete, University at Buffalo, USA 4. Sade and the Problem of Ecological Sovereignty Allan Stoekl, Penn State University, USA 5. Going Nowhere: On the History and Modernity of the Sadeian Picaresque in Justine and Juliette James A. Steintrager, University of California, Irvine, USA 6. The Crimes of Love: Pierre Klossowski, Queer Theory, and the Modernist Novel Charlie Clements, Tufts University, USA Part II: Sade and Modernism 1. Beckett’s Sadean Modernism Jean-Michel Rabaté, University of Pennsylvania, USA 2. Horkheimer, Sade, and Erotic Reason William S. Allen, University of Southampton, UK 3. Sade as Modernism Lode Lauwaert, University of Leuven, Belgium 4. The Sad(e) Laugh: Sade, Beckett and the Po-ethics of Parody Elsa Baroghel, University of Oxford, UK 5. Foucault's Sade: Universalism and Monstrosity Mladen Kozul, University of Montana, Missoula, USA 6. Sade, Tel Quel, Modernism Patrick ffrench, Kings College London, UK 7. Domesticating Sade: ""Continental Philosophy"" and the Aesthetics of the Abhorrent Martin Lloyd 8. Sade Reads d’Holbach: Nature, Atheism, and Materialism in 18th Century France Dany Nobus, Brunel University London, UK 9. Authoring the Disgusting Cindy Zeiher, University of Canterbury, New Zealand 10. Mr. Sade’s Neighborhood S. E. Gontarski, Ohio State University, USA 11. Sade, Group Sex, and the Cinematic Sentence Ramsey McGlazer, University of California, Berkeley, USA 12. The Marquis de Sade and the 1960s Counterculture: The Progressive Defence of a Horror Show Guy Stevenson, Queen Mary University of London and Goldsmiths College, UK Part III: Glossary of Key Terms Education Brian Hunt, Independent Researcher, USA Nature Dany Nobus, Brunel University London, UK God James Martell, Lyon College, USA Crime James Martell, Lyon College, USA Virtue Adele Okoli, University of Central Arkansas, USA Jews Adele Okoli, University of Central Arkansas, USA Ethics Rodrigo Gonsalves, European Graduate School, Switzerland Atheism Tony Richards Libertinism Tony Richards Irony James A. Steintrager, University of California, Irvine, USA Apathy James A. Steintrager, University of California, Irvine, USA Aestheticism James A. Steintrager, University of California, Irvine, USA Bibliography Index"

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Sade’s role in shaping the modernist consciousness is difficult to underestimate. This indispensable collection of essays sheds invaluable light on the myriad of ways in which this most singular of 18th-century thinkers was taken up in the 20th century to articulate modernist perspectives on desire and subjectivity, reason and unreason, transgression and abjection. * Ian James, Professor of Modern French Philosophy and Literature, University of Cambridge, UK * Rather than focusing on just one aspect of the Marquis de Sade’s influence on European culture, this groundbreaking collection situates his work within the key areas it has shaped: continental philosophy, literary modernism, and modernity itself. Here is a book brimming with new insights and offering a nuanced view of Sade’s huge contribution to contemporary philosophical, literary, and cultural debates. * Ulrika Maude, Professor of Modern Literature, University of Bristol, UK *

Author Information

James Martell is Associate Professor of Romance Languages at Lyon College, USA. He has published articles on Derrida, Deleuze, Beckett, Malabou, and the cinema of Béla Tarr in journals like Mosaic, the Oxford Literary Review, and Sanglap. He co-edited in 2018 together with Fernanda Negrete a special volume of Samuel Beckett Today/Aujourd’hui, titled ‘Beckett Beyond Words,’ and in 2021 Tattooed Bodies: Theorizing Body Inscription Across Disciplines and Cultures with Erik Larsen. His book, Modernism, Self-Creation, and the Maternal: The Mother's Son was published in 2019.

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