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Sade's Sensibilities

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Sade's Sensibilities tells a new story of one of the most enduring and controversial figures in European literature. Blending ideas about subjectivity, identity and natural philosophy with politics and pornography, D.A.F. de Sade has fascinated writers and readers for two hundred years, and his materialist account of the human condition has been widely influential in post-structuralism, nihilism, and feminism. This new collection of essays considers Sade's Enlightenment legacy, both within and beyond the narratives of radicalism and aberration that have historically marked the study of his oeuvre. From different points of view, these essays argue that Sade engaged with and influenced traditional Enlightenment paradigms-particularly those related to sensibility, subjectivity, and philosophy-as much as he resisted them. They thus recover a Sade more relevant, even foundational to our twenty-first century understanding of modernity, selfhood, and community. In Sade's Sensibilities Sade is no longer a solitary, peripheral radical, but an Enlightenment philosopher in his own right.
Acknowledgements Introduction Kate Parker Part I: Feeling, Thinking, Reading Sade Chapter 1: Coitus Interruptus: Sadean Intimacy and the End(s) of Narrrative Christopher Nagle and Courtney Wennerstrom Chapter 2: The Reader in the Boudoir Eliane Moraes Chapter 3: Obscenity off the Scene: Sade's La Philosophie dans le boudoir John Phillips Chapter 4: Sade, Philosophy and Fiction Norbert Sclippa Part II: In Pursuit of D.A.F. de Sade Chapter 5: "A little short fat man, thirty-five years of age, inconceivably vigorous, and hairy as a bear": The Figure of the Philosopher in Sade Caroline Warman Chapter 6: Sade at the End of the World Natania Meeker Chapter 7: Sade and the Medical Sciences: Pathophysiology of the Novel and the Rhetoric of Contagion Mladen Kozul Chapter 8: The Marquis, the Monster and the Scientist: Sade, Sexology and Criticism Will McMorran Bibliography Notes on Contributors
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