Understanding Sade, Understanding Modernism

The most current multidisciplinary and multivocal engagement with Sade''s enduring influences on modernism and the philosophical need for continued analysis of his work and the questions it raises.

From Lacan to Dalí, through Simone de Beauvoir, Beckett, Horkheimer, Burroughs, Pasolini, Foucault, Deleuze, up to Žižek, the Marquis de Sade''s influence and impact on modernism and modern thinking is h...