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Sade’s Philosophical “System”

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Sade’s Philosophical System in its Enlightenment Context

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This chapter introduces the major themes of Sade’s philosophical “system.” Of particular importance here is the relationship between philosophy and literature: Sade’s philosophical “system” is imbricated with his literary/aesthetical project. The chapter situates the book as a whole within the field of Sade studies. This book revises two of the most significant idées reçues within the literature: first, that the violence in Sade is only to language, and so Sade only has intentions apropos of writing; second, that Sade, insofar as he is a philosopher, is a philosopher of unreason or irrationality or is avant la lettre a theorist of something like Freud’s Id.

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Lloyd, H.M. (2018). Sade’s Philosophical “System”. In: Sade’s Philosophical System in its Enlightenment Context. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-97196-4_2

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