Read Anywhere and on Any Device!

Subscribe to Read | $0.00

Join today and start reading your favorite books for Free!

Create Free Account

How to Read Sade

Simon Critchley

3.2/5 ( ratings)

Approaching the writing of major intellectuals, artists, and philosophers need no longer be daunting. How to Read is a new sort of introduction--a personal master class in reading--that brings you face to face with the work of some of the most influential and challenging writers in history. In lucid, accessible language, these books explain essential topics such as the historical context that frames de Sade's daring philosophy.

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 center of philosophy, Sade has a unique place in the history of modern thought.

Extracts are taken from the entire 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.

Language: English

Pages: 130

Format: Paperback

Publisher: W. W. Norton Company

Release: September 17, 2005

ISBN: 0393328228

ISBN 13: 9780393328226

How to Read Sade

Simon Critchley

3.2/5 ( ratings)

Approaching the writing of major intellectuals, artists, and philosophers need no longer be daunting. How to Read is a new sort of introduction--a personal master class in reading--that brings you face to face with the work of some of the most influential and challenging writers in history. In lucid, accessible language, these books explain essential topics such as the historical context that frames de Sade's daring philosophy.

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 center of philosophy, Sade has a unique place in the history of modern thought.

Extracts are taken from the entire 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.

Language: English

Pages: 130

Format: Paperback

Publisher: W. W. Norton Company

Release: September 17, 2005

ISBN: 0393328228

ISBN 13: 9780393328226

More books from Simon Critchley

How to Read Lacan

3.9/5 ( ratings)

The Book of Dead Philosophers

3.6/5 ( ratings)

Continental Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction

3.7/5 ( ratings)

Bowie

3.7/5 ( ratings)

Notes on Suicide

3.7/5 ( ratings)

What We Think about When We Think about Soccer

3.3/5 ( ratings)

Infinitely Demanding: Ethics of Commitment, Politics of Resistance

3.7/5 ( ratings)

Memory Theatre

3.6/5 ( ratings)

How to Read Heidegger

3.8/5 ( ratings)

On Humour

3.4/5 ( ratings)

Emmanuel Levinas: Basic Philosophical Writings

4.1/5 ( ratings)

The Faith of the Faithless: Experiments in Political Theology

3.8/5 ( ratings)

Tragedy, the Greeks, and Us

3.8/5 ( ratings)

Stay, Illusion!: The Hamlet Doctrine

3.4/5 ( ratings)

How to Read Nietzsche

3.4/5 ( ratings)

A Beginner's Guide to Philosophy

3.2/5 ( ratings)

Rate this book!

Write a review?