Sade/Fourier/Loyola

by Roland Barthes

Book Overview

In Sade/Fourier/Loyola, eminent literary theorist Roland Barthes offers a fascinating treatise on the nature of philosophical creation. Barthes examines the parallel impulses of Loyola, the Jesuit saint, Sade, the renowned and sometimes pornographic libertine philosopher, and Fourier, the utopian theorist. All three, he makes clear, have been founders of languages--Loyola, the language of divine address; Sade, the language of erotic freedom; and Fourier,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801855268
• ISBN13: 9780801855269
• Release Date: February 1997
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.56 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.3" x 8.3"

Customer Reviews

Delicious

Wonderful! The best, most readable book I have read by Barthes, and the best work I have read on Sade. Full of humor and insight with lots of savory biographical tidbits. The startlingly *natural* juxtaposition of Loyola, Fourier and Sade is cool and casual, not at all forced, and all the more remarkable for that. I read this in one sitting. You should too.