Description Argues that Gustave Flaubert’s unfinished satirical novel Bouvard et Pécuchet (1881) is more transgressive in its un-making of the concept of law and order than in the works of his literary model Sade. According […]
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Intersections. A Reading of Sade with Bataille, Blanchot, and Klossowksi
Description Argues that Sade undermines hierarchical distinctions which, according to Gallop, are the foundations of Western philosophy. In his works, Sade deconstructs sexual hierarchies and conventions, gender binarism, as well as the distinction between various […]
Mapping the Republic of Letters
Description This website provides interactive, visual tools that depict the vast networks of people and information during the Enlightenment. Using archived letters, travel logs, and other resources, it depicts visually the routes traveled by letters, […]
Sade: From Materialism to Pornography
Description Examines influences of materialist philosophers of the Enlightenment on Sade’s thinking and writing and how Sade adapts these various philosophies to create his own transgressive approach to materialism. In so doing, Warman shows how […]
Sade/Surreal. Der Marquis de Sade und die erotische Fantasie des Surrealismus in Text und Bild
Description Explores Sade’s impact on the political surrealist art movement in Europe, especially before the 1930s. Sade was hailed for what the surrealists perceived to be his atheistic, materialist, nihilistic and individualistic anarchism that appealed […]
Sade: Queer Theorist
Description Examines Sade’s multifaceted depiction of sexual desire, gender and biological sex and links this representation to queer theories which help better understand Sade’s denial of binary representations of sexuality. The polyphonic definitions of “nature” […]
L’invention de la catastrophe au xviiie siècle: du châtiment au désastre naturel
Description In the spirit of Starobinski’s L’invention de la liberté, 1700-1789, essays in this edited volume consider the invention of “catastrophe” in the eighteenth century, i.e. the idea of catastrophe as a natural event and […]
“De la percepción popular a la reflexión erudite: La transmisión de la ‘cultura de la catástrofe’ en la España del siglo XVIII”
Description In this article, Alberola argues that while the first formal reflections on the physical nature of disasters appeared in the philosophical and scientific works of the Classical era, it was in the eighteenth century […]
Medicine in the Boudoir: Sade and Moral Hygiene in Post-Thermidorean France
Description Situates Sade’s work into the cultural and intellectual context during the Age of Enlightenment by focusing on Sade’s engaged approach to scientific culture, epistemology and social reforms and analyzes his medical appropriation of these […]