The divine Marquis' ethical project: Sade and the "turn to religion" in postmodernist philosophy
This thesis argues that Sade’s work constitutes a transgressive ethical project that cannot escape Christian ethical categories. According to the logic of transgression Sade must invoke and reinstate those limits and categories – such as good/evil, vice/virtue, sacred/profane – that he destroys. I...
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2014
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| author | Russell, Melissa Michele |
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| description | This thesis argues that Sade’s work constitutes a transgressive ethical project that cannot escape Christian ethical categories. According to the logic of transgression Sade must invoke and reinstate those limits and categories – such as good/evil, vice/virtue, sacred/profane – that he destroys. I do not argue that Sade employed a theory of transgression but, following Bataille and Foucault, who base their concept of transgression on Sade’s work, I use transgression as a philosophical lens through which to reread him. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-3572017-02-20T06:42:05Z The divine Marquis' ethical project: Sade and the "turn to religion" in postmodernist philosophy Russell, Melissa Michele This thesis argues that Sade’s work constitutes a transgressive ethical project that cannot escape Christian ethical categories. According to the logic of transgression Sade must invoke and reinstate those limits and categories – such as good/evil, vice/virtue, sacred/profane – that he destroys. I do not argue that Sade employed a theory of transgression but, following Bataille and Foucault, who base their concept of transgression on Sade’s work, I use transgression as a philosophical lens through which to reread him. 2014 Thesis http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/357 en Curtin University fulltext |
| spellingShingle | Russell, Melissa Michele The divine Marquis' ethical project: Sade and the "turn to religion" in postmodernist philosophy |
| title | The divine Marquis' ethical project: Sade and the "turn to religion" in postmodernist philosophy |
| title_full | The divine Marquis' ethical project: Sade and the "turn to religion" in postmodernist philosophy |
| title_fullStr | The divine Marquis' ethical project: Sade and the "turn to religion" in postmodernist philosophy |
| title_full_unstemmed | The divine Marquis' ethical project: Sade and the "turn to religion" in postmodernist philosophy |
| title_short | The divine Marquis' ethical project: Sade and the "turn to religion" in postmodernist philosophy |
| title_sort | divine marquis' ethical project: sade and the "turn to religion" in postmodernist philosophy |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/357 |