Caroline warman sade biography

Professor Caroline Warman is Zeitlyn Fellow and Tutor in French at Jesus College and Professor of French Literature and Thought at the University of Oxford.

This book is about how Sade took a pure version of eighteenth-century materialism and rendered it into an even purer form of pornography.

I work on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century French writing, and have published on Diderot and Sade, and on aspects of literary, cultural and medical history.

This book is about how Sade took a pure version of eighteenth-century materialism and rendered it into an even purer form of pornography.

Modern Language Review · Modern Humanities Research Association.

I work on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century French writing, and have published on Diderot and Sade, and on aspects of literary, cultural and medical history....

Sade

from materialism to pornography

Author: Caroline Warman

Volume: 2002:01

Series: SVEC

Publication Date: 2002

Pages: 188

ISBN: 978-0-7294-0773-1

Price: £50

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Sade’s personal fate has too long encouraged critics to concentrate on his personal isolation and personal revolt.

Extraordinary as his life was, the light that it throws on his work casts into shade the intellectual context that was much more important to its generation than his actual experience.

This book is about how Sade took a pure version of eighteenth-century materialism and rendered it into an even purer form of pornography.

The eternal yet unequal clashing of atomic bodies became the endless torture of human ones. It traces the intellectual genealogy that links Sade to his materialist forebears (d’Holbach, Condillac, Buffon, Diderot, La Mettrie, Robinet, Delisle de Sales) and shows how the germs of cruel pleasure were already present in elements of their work, as much in their r