Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley door pickup 10am - 7pm 3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611

  • Open Daily: 10am - 10pm
    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Philosophy in the Boudoir: Or the Immoral Instructors

Philosophy in the Boudoir: Or the Immoral Instructors

Sade, Marquis de
Nelson, Sarah
Quinlan, Sean M.

Hardcover

Philosophy

PREORDER - Expected ship date January 4, 2027

ISBN10: 0226817636
ISBN13: 9780226817637
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: Jan 4 2027
Pages: 352
Weight: 1.00
Language: English

A freshly translated critical edition of the infamous eighteenth-century sadist's sprawling work of eroticism that endures today as a serious philosophical argument.

The infamous libertine Marquis de Sade (1740-1814), from whose name we derive the word sadism, wove into his pornographic writings many strands of philosophical brilliance whose insights, interspersed between appalling descriptions of sexual deviance, have perplexed readers for centuries. First published in 1795, Philosophy in the Boudoir remains one of the most influential of these works, containing a powerful essay that distills Sade's most illicit ideas into a compelling argument for personal freedom. In it, Sade experiments with forms drawn from sentimental fiction, pornography, philosophical dialogue, and drama to both satirize his contemporaries and champion the virtues of the heroic libertine--an important intellectual precursor to ideas further developed by Nietzsche, Freud, and others.

Also from

Sade, Marquis de

View All

Also in

Philosophy

View All