Sade: from materialism to pornography

by Warman and Caroline Warman

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 072940773X
• ISBN13: 9780729407731
• Release Date: January 2002
• Publisher: Voltaire Foundation
• Length: 188 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"