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Justine, Philosophy in the Bedroom, and Other Writings
Justine, Philosophy in the Bedroom, and Other Writings | marquis de Sade
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No other writer has so scandalized proper society as the Marquis de Sade, but despite the deliberate destruction of over three-quarters of his work, Sade remains a major figure in the history of ideas. His influence on some of the greatest minds of the last century—from Baudelaire and Swinburne to Nietzsche, Dostoyevsky and Kafka—is indisputable. This volume contains Philosophy in the Bedroom, a major novel that presents the clearest summation of his political philosophy; Eugénie de Franval, a novella widely considered to be a masterpiece of eighteenth-century French literature; and the only authentic and complete American edition of his most famous work, Justine. This literary portrait of Sade is completed by one of his earliest philosophical efforts, Dialogue between a Priest and a Dying Man, a selection of his letters, a fifty-page chronology of his life, two important essays on Sade, and a bibliography of his work.
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“Benevolence is more a vice of pride than a true virtue of the soul.“

Remembering Donatien Alphonse François de Sade, the Divine Marquis, on his birthday.

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The Marquis de Sade is a pretty amazing philosopher and even feminist (at least from a body autonomy point of view) if you weed past what was seemingly intended to shock the prudes and the authorities that basically kept him imprisoned without a charge or trial. Some of the weeds are pretty extreme, of course.