Enquiring Minds

The Enquiring Minds Group will discuss The Marquis de Sade: A Very Short Introduction  by John Phillips (Oxford, $11.95).  Phillips introduces the Marquis de Sade as writer and philosopher, offering concise but comprehensive surveys of his most controversial works, based on contemporary theoretical approaches.  An introductory chapter discusses Sade's life and the links between that and his work. Relying on the many letters he wrote to his wife and lawyer from prison and on other authentic, contemporary evidence, the author attempts to disentangle this life from the various myths that Sade's demonic reputation has engendered throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The following six chapters provide broad coverage of Sade's main intellectual and creative activities, showing how all can be seen as the expression of a veritable cult of the body, a veneration of the physical, and the sexual as channels of transcendence.

Event date: 

Thursday, September 25, 2014 - 6:30pm
The Marquis de Sade: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) By John Phillips Cover Image
$12.99
ISBN: 9780192804693
Availability: On our shelves as of last inventory update.
Published: Oxford University Press, USA - October 13th, 2005

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