Understanding Sade, Understanding Modernism
Published on 6. February 2025
Book
Hardback
320 pages
979-8-7651-0915-1 (ISBN)
Description
The most current multidisciplinary and multivocal engagement with Sade's enduring influences on modernism and the philosophical need for continued analysis of his work and the questions it raises.
From Lacan to Dali, through Simone de Beauvoir, Beckett, Horkheimer, Burroughs, Pasolini, Foucault, Deleuze, up to Zizek, the Marquis de Sade's influence and impact on modernism and modern thinking is hard to measure. Understanding Sade, Understanding Modernism presents its readers with a chance to reflect on the importance of this radical oeuvre from different perspectives.
Contributors examine Sadean literature and thought through some of its main texts (including 120 Days of Sodom, History of Juliette, The Crimes of Love, and Philosophy in the Boudoir) in a series of comparative essays that not only examine Sade's influence in French, European, and American thought, but also critique it in the context of some of modern philosophy's most relevant subjects: ecology, nature, universalism, and the links between ethics and aesthetics.
The final section identifies key concepts and notions within Sade's corpus in a series of entries offering context and a discussion of their relevance for current thought.
From Lacan to Dali, through Simone de Beauvoir, Beckett, Horkheimer, Burroughs, Pasolini, Foucault, Deleuze, up to Zizek, the Marquis de Sade's influence and impact on modernism and modern thinking is hard to measure. Understanding Sade, Understanding Modernism presents its readers with a chance to reflect on the importance of this radical oeuvre from different perspectives.
Contributors examine Sadean literature and thought through some of its main texts (including 120 Days of Sodom, History of Juliette, The Crimes of Love, and Philosophy in the Boudoir) in a series of comparative essays that not only examine Sade's influence in French, European, and American thought, but also critique it in the context of some of modern philosophy's most relevant subjects: ecology, nature, universalism, and the links between ethics and aesthetics.
The final section identifies key concepts and notions within Sade's corpus in a series of entries offering context and a discussion of their relevance for current thought.
Reviews / Votes
Sade's role in shaping the modernist consciousness is difficult to underestimate. This indispensable collection of essays sheds invaluable light on the myriad of ways in which this most singular of 18th-century thinkers was taken up in the 20th century to articulate modernist perspectives on desire and subjectivity, reason and unreason, transgression and abjection. * Ian James, Professor of Modern French Philosophy and Literature, University of Cambridge, UK * Rather than focusing on just one aspect of the Marquis de Sade's influence on European culture, this groundbreaking collection situates his work within the key areas it has shaped: continental philosophy, literary modernism, and modernity itself. Here is a book brimming with new insights and offering a nuanced view of Sade's huge contribution to contemporary philosophical, literary, and cultural debates. * Ulrika Maude, Professor of Modern Literature, University of Bristol, UK *More details
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Target group
Professional and scholarly
College/higher education
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Height: 232 mm
Width: 158 mm
Thickness: 26 mm
Weight
620 gr
ISBN-13
979-8-7651-0915-1 (9798765109151)
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Understanding Sade, Understanding Modernism
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James Martell
Understanding Sade, Understanding Modernism
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01/2025
Bloomsbury Academic USA
€107.99
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Persons
James Martell is Associate Professor of Romance Languages at Lyon College, USA. He has published articles on Derrida, Deleuze, Beckett, Malabou, and the cinema of Bela Tarr in journals like Mosaic, the Oxford Literary Review, and Sanglap. He co-edited in 2018 together with Fernanda Negrete a special volume of Samuel Beckett Today/Aujourd'hui, titled 'Beckett Beyond Words,' and in 2021 Tattooed Bodies: Theorizing Body Inscription Across Disciplines and Cultures with Erik Larsen. His book, Modernism, Self-Creation, and the Maternal: The Mother's Son was published in 2019.
Content
Introduction: Unzeitgemaesser Marquis
James Martell, Lyon College, USA
Part I: Conceptualizing Sade
1. S'eriger en libertin: The Care of the Libertine Self in Histoire de Juliette
Henry Martyn Lloyd, University of Queensland, Australia
2. Derrida with Sade or the 44 Journees
James Martell, Lyon College, USA
3. "Modernes! Encore un effort, si vous voulez l'inoui": Becoming a Woman and Sustaining an Ethics for the Feminine Beyond the Boudoir
Fernanda Negrete, University at Buffalo, USA
4. Sade and the Problem of Ecological Sovereignty
Allan Stoekl, Penn State University, USA
5. Sade, Genealogy, Modernity, or Historicism Perverted
James A. Steintrager, University of California, Irvine, USA
6. Obscene Martyrs
Cindy Zeiher, University of Canterbury, New Zealand
7. The Crimes of Love: Pierre Klossowski, Queer Theory, and the Modernist Novel
Charlie Clements, Tufts University, USA
Part II: Sade and Modernism
8. Beckett's Sadean Modernism
Jean-Michel Rabate, University of Pennsylvania, USA
9. Horkheimer, Sade, and Erotic Reason
William S. Allen, University of Southampton, UK
10. Sade Reads d'Holbach: Atheism, Materialism, and Atopy in the Rise of the Avant-Garde
Dany Nobus, Brunel University London, UK
11. Foucault's Sade, or a Modernist's Destiny: Transgression, Desire, and Power
Mladen Kozul, University of Montana, Missoula, USA
12. Sade Tel Quel: Writing Desire
Patrick ffrench, Kings College London, UK
13. Domesticating Sade: The Avant-Garde, "Continental" Philosophy, and Sade's Aesthetics of the Abhorrent
Henry Martyn Lloyd, University of Queensland, Australia
14. Sade in the 1960s Counterculture: The Progressive Defense of a Horror Show
Guy Stevenson, Queen Mary University of London and Goldsmiths College, UK
15. Sade, Sex Ed, and the Cinematic Sentence
Ramsey McGlazer, University of California, Berkeley, USA
16. Beckett's Sad(e) Laugh: Philosophical Grotesquerie and Po-ethics of Parody in Samuel Beckett's Reception of the Marquis de Sade
Elsa Baroghel, University of Oxford, UK
Part III: Glossary
17. Aestheticism
James A. Steintrager, University of California, Irvine, USA
18. Apathy
James A. Steintrager, University of California, Irvine, USA
19. Atheism
Tony Richards, University of Lincoln, USA
20. Crime
James Martell, Lyon College, USA
21. Ethics
Rodrigo Gonsalves, European Graduate School, Switzerland
22. Irony
James A. Steintrager, University of California, Irvine, USA
23. Libertinism
Tony Richards, University of Lincoln, UK
24. Mathematics
Prashant Mishra, Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar, India
25. Nature
Dany Nobus, Brunel University London, UK
Notes
Notes on Contributors
Index
James Martell, Lyon College, USA
Part I: Conceptualizing Sade
1. S'eriger en libertin: The Care of the Libertine Self in Histoire de Juliette
Henry Martyn Lloyd, University of Queensland, Australia
2. Derrida with Sade or the 44 Journees
James Martell, Lyon College, USA
3. "Modernes! Encore un effort, si vous voulez l'inoui": Becoming a Woman and Sustaining an Ethics for the Feminine Beyond the Boudoir
Fernanda Negrete, University at Buffalo, USA
4. Sade and the Problem of Ecological Sovereignty
Allan Stoekl, Penn State University, USA
5. Sade, Genealogy, Modernity, or Historicism Perverted
James A. Steintrager, University of California, Irvine, USA
6. Obscene Martyrs
Cindy Zeiher, University of Canterbury, New Zealand
7. The Crimes of Love: Pierre Klossowski, Queer Theory, and the Modernist Novel
Charlie Clements, Tufts University, USA
Part II: Sade and Modernism
8. Beckett's Sadean Modernism
Jean-Michel Rabate, University of Pennsylvania, USA
9. Horkheimer, Sade, and Erotic Reason
William S. Allen, University of Southampton, UK
10. Sade Reads d'Holbach: Atheism, Materialism, and Atopy in the Rise of the Avant-Garde
Dany Nobus, Brunel University London, UK
11. Foucault's Sade, or a Modernist's Destiny: Transgression, Desire, and Power
Mladen Kozul, University of Montana, Missoula, USA
12. Sade Tel Quel: Writing Desire
Patrick ffrench, Kings College London, UK
13. Domesticating Sade: The Avant-Garde, "Continental" Philosophy, and Sade's Aesthetics of the Abhorrent
Henry Martyn Lloyd, University of Queensland, Australia
14. Sade in the 1960s Counterculture: The Progressive Defense of a Horror Show
Guy Stevenson, Queen Mary University of London and Goldsmiths College, UK
15. Sade, Sex Ed, and the Cinematic Sentence
Ramsey McGlazer, University of California, Berkeley, USA
16. Beckett's Sad(e) Laugh: Philosophical Grotesquerie and Po-ethics of Parody in Samuel Beckett's Reception of the Marquis de Sade
Elsa Baroghel, University of Oxford, UK
Part III: Glossary
17. Aestheticism
James A. Steintrager, University of California, Irvine, USA
18. Apathy
James A. Steintrager, University of California, Irvine, USA
19. Atheism
Tony Richards, University of Lincoln, USA
20. Crime
James Martell, Lyon College, USA
21. Ethics
Rodrigo Gonsalves, European Graduate School, Switzerland
22. Irony
James A. Steintrager, University of California, Irvine, USA
23. Libertinism
Tony Richards, University of Lincoln, UK
24. Mathematics
Prashant Mishra, Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar, India
25. Nature
Dany Nobus, Brunel University London, UK
Notes
Notes on Contributors
Index