The essay by Simone de Beauvoir “Must We Burn Sade?” was originally published in the December 1951 and January 1952 issues of Les Temps Modernes as “Faut-il brûler Sade?” …

quis de Sade was, and remains, a complex and controversial figure. The extreme sexual nature of his works led to his name being the definition of sexual torture and humiliation, but beyond this …

Jean Fabre’s essay ‘Sade et le roman noir’ (in Idées sur le roman: de Madame de Lafayette au Marquis de Sade (Paris: Klincksieck, ), pp. – ) addresses the question of Gothic influences on …

The essay “Sade” by Maurice Blanchot forms part of that author’s volume entitled Lautréamont et Sade, copyright 1949 by Les Éditions de Minuit, and is here reprinted by permission of the …

In order to demonstrate these claims, we thoroughly analyse de Sadeʼs philosophies of naturalism and materialism, i.e., his metaphysics and his radical ethics of “immorality”, based on viewing …

To the final version of Justine—and there are three versions of Justine—Sade added, as its complement and to complete it, The Story of Juliette; the two panels of a diptych, interrelated …

Apr 29, 2014 · In exploring and describing Sade’s ethical system, this thesis will also demonstrate how Sade can be used to re-examine contemporary ethical theories.