Synopses & Reviews
A major collection of critical essays on the work of the Marquis de Sade.
Review
'This excellent collection of essays merits closer consideration by advanced specialists. In addition to making classical texts on Sade published in French available to the English reader, the text offers an updated perspective on more recent scholarship.' French Review
Table of Contents
List of contributors; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. The use value of D. A. F. Sade (An open letter to my current comrades) Georges Bataille; 2. Sade, or the philosopher-villain Pierre Klossowski; 3. Libidinal economy in Sade and Klossowski Jean-François Lyotard; 4. A political minimalist Philippe Roger; 5. The Society of the Friends of Crime Alphonso Lingis; 6. Sade, mothers and other women Jane Gallop; 7. The encyclopedia of excess Marcel Hénaff; 8. 'Sex', or, the misfortunes of literature Dalia Judovitz; 9. Structures of exchange, acts of transgression Allen S. Weiss; 10. Gender and narrative possibilities Nancy K. Miller; 11. Sade's literary space Lawrence Schehr; 12. Fantasizing Juliette Chantal Thomas; Select bibliography; Index.