Overview
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)
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Introduction
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The Body of Sensibility: Ontology, Epistemology, Genre
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Moral Sense, Pleasant Sensations, and Libertine Sensibility
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The Authority of Nature: Sade’s Use and Critique of the Natural Law Tradition
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Ethical Self-Fashioning and the Problem of Libertine Sociability in Histoire de Juliette; or, Histoire de Juliette comme roman d’apprentissage
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Conclusion
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Authors and Affiliations
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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