Marquis De Sade

Cursed writer and thinker, Marquis de Sade, whose books were kept under lock and key in the "hell" section of libraries for centuries, was rediscovered at the beginning of the 20th century and left his mark on world literature and philosophical thought for a whole century. Sade, who delved into the darkness and depths of the human soul in the 1700s, confronted us with violence, eroticism and pornography, and destroyed our social conformism and hypocritical morality by taking reason and enlightenment to their logical conclusion, surely has a lot to say in this 20th century, one of the bloodiest centuries humanity has ever seen. There was something...

In Why Was Marquis de Sade Taken Seriously in the Twentieth Century, Éric Marty places his thought within the problematics of the age they lived in; Through thinkers, writers and filmmakers such as Georges Bataille, Jacques Lacan, Maurice Blanchot, Roland Barthes, Philippe Sollers, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Michel Foucault, Gilles Deleuze, Pierre Klossowski, who pursued their own intellectual and creative adventures by struggling with their works, both Sade and the 20th century It draws a detailed panorama of century thought.

Why was Sade taken seriously in the 20th century, which produced so many wars, genocides and massacres? An in-depth journey in which we search for the answer to this question hidden in the labyrinths of the world of thought and creation...

(From the Promotional Bulletin)

Dough Type: 2nd Dough

First Printing Year: 2017

Number of Printings: 1st Edition

Number of Pages: 296

Size: 14x20

Media Type: Paperback