Marquis de Sade and Continental Philosophy

Reads six interpretations of de Sade in French post-war philosophy: Klossowski, Blanchot, Bataille, Lacan, Barthes and Deleuze 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 culture: 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 philo