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Sade’s Philosophical System in its Enlightenment Context

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Authors:
  1. Henry Martyn Lloyd

    1. School of Historical and Philosophical Inquiry, University of Queensland, Saint Lucia, Australia

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  • Meets a market need: fills the gap for a substantial English-language study of Sade’s contribution to Enlightenment philosophy

  • Takes a rigorous approach: uses contextual intellectual history to reconstruct Sade’s philosophy in its Enlightenment setting

  • Provides a broad assessment: encompasses Sade’s non-libertine works such as Aline et Valcour as well as his major novel Historie de Juliette

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxvii
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  2. Introduction

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. The Problem of Sade

      • Henry Martyn Lloyd
      Pages 3-20

    3. Sade’s Philosophical “System”

      • Henry Martyn Lloyd
      Pages 21-45

  3. The Body of Sensibility: Ontology, Epistemology, Genre

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 47-47
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    2. Sensibility, Vitalist Medicine, and Embodied Epistemology

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      Pages 49-82

    3. Sensibility, Genre, and the Roman philosophique

      • Henry Martyn Lloyd
      Pages 83-106

  4. Moral Sense, Pleasant Sensations, and Libertine Sensibility

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 107-112
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    2. Moral Sense Theory in the French Enlightenment

      • Henry Martyn Lloyd
      Pages 113-130

    3. Rousseau’s Knowing Heart, Sade’s Knowing Body

      • Henry Martyn Lloyd
      Pages 131-150

    4. Heart and Head, Love and Libertinage, in Histoire de Juliette

      • Henry Martyn Lloyd
      Pages 151-165

  5. The Authority of Nature: Sade’s Use and Critique of the Natural Law Tradition

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 167-167
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    2. Natural Law, and the Law and Voice of Nature

      • Henry Martyn Lloyd
      Pages 169-180

    3. Living It Up in the State of Nature: Sade Contra Hobbes and Rousseau

      • Henry Martyn Lloyd
      Pages 181-199

    4. Sadean Natural Law in Histoire de Juliette

      • Henry Martyn Lloyd
      Pages 201-227

  6. Ethical Self-Fashioning and the Problem of Libertine Sociability in Histoire de Juliette; or, Histoire de Juliette comme roman d’apprentissage

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 229-229
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    2. Sade’s Theory of Libertine Askesis

      • Henry Martyn Lloyd
      Pages 231-255

    3. Juliette’s Ambiguous Apprenticeship

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      Pages 257-280

  7. Conclusion

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 281-281
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    2. Against the Dialectic of Enlightenment; or, How Not to Read Kant Avec Sade

      • Henry Martyn Lloyd
      Pages 283-296
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About this book

This book connects the philosophy of the Marquis de Sade—one of the most notorious, iconic, and yet poorly-understood figures within the history of European thought—with the broader themes of the Enlightenment. Rather than seeing himself as a mere pornographer, Sade understood himself as continuing the progressive tradition of French Enlightenment philosophy. Sade aspired to be a philosophe. This book uses intellectual history and the history of philosophy to reconstruct Sade’s philosophical ‘system’ and its historical context. Within the period’s discourse of sensibility Sade draws on the philosophical and the literary to form a relatively sophisticated ‘system’ which he deploys to critically engage with the two major strands of eighteenth-century ethical theory: the moral sense and natural law traditions. This work is of interest to: ‘Continental’ Philosophy, Critical Theory, French Studies, the History of Eighteenth-Century Philosophy, Literary Studies, the History of Moral Philosophy, and Enlightenment Studies.

Reviews

“Henry Martyn Lloyd’s richly textured, historically informed, and philosophically astute study succeeds where others have failed in situating Sade’s notorious corpus of works within the broader landscape of eighteenth-century thought.  By laying out the ways in which his peculiar mélange of literature and philosophy was a response to the positions staked out by Rousseau, Condillac, d’Holbach, and other, less familiar contemporaries, Lloyd allows us to see Sade as an informed — albeit often idiosyncratic — participant in the arguments and approaches that shaped the late Enlightenment.  The result is an insightful and engaging account of a thinker who was neither a stranger to the concerns of the Enlightenment nor a symptom of its alleged pathologies.” (Prof. James Schmidt, Boston University, USA)

Authors and Affiliations

  • School of Historical and Philosophical Inquiry, University of Queensland, Saint Lucia, Australia

    Henry Martyn Lloyd

About the author

Henry Martyn Lloyd is Junior Research Fellow in Enlightenment Studies at the University of Sydney and an Honorary Research Fellow in Philosophy at the University of Queensland, Australia. He specialises in the History of Philosophy with a particular interest in the French Enlightenment and in traditions of ‘Continental’ philosophy.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Sade’s Philosophical System in its Enlightenment Context

  • Authors: Henry Martyn Lloyd

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-97196-4

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-97195-7Published: 12 December 2018

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-40537-3Published: 18 February 2020

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-97196-4Published: 05 September 2018

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXVII, 305

  • Topics: History of Philosophy, Moral Philosophy

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