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How To Read Sade

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title How To Read Sade
Authors and Contributors      By (author) John Phillips
SeriesHow to Read
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:128
Dimensions(mm): Height 198,Width 130
Category/GenreLiterary studies - c 1500 to c 1800
Literary studies - fiction, novelists and prose writers
ISBN/Barcode 9781862077270
ClassificationsDewey:843.6
Audience
General

Publishing Details

Publisher Granta Books
Imprint Granta Books
Publication Date 7 February 2005
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

John Phillips introduces the Marquis de Sade's highly original and thoroughly subversive depiction of human sexuality, and the philosophical and political thinking that underpins it. He shows how, though Sade's work continues to shock, it can also be seen as the logical conclusion of eighteenth-century materialism. As the only writer of his time who dared to put the body at the centre of philosophy, Sade has a unique place in the history of modern thought. Extracts are taken from the whole range of Sade's literary, philosophical and personal writings, including The 120 Days of Sodom; Philosophy in the Boudoir; Justine; Juliette; and his Last Will and Testament.

Author Biography

John Phillips is Professor of French Literature and Culture at London Metropolitan University. He is the author of a number of books on French literature, including Forbidden Fictions: Pornography and Censorship in Twentieth-Century French Literature and Sade: The Libertine Novels. He is currently co-editing The Encyclopedia of Erotic Literature for Routledge.