Philosophy in the Boudoir

Author: Marquis de Sade
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0143039016
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 193

Book Description
Philosophy in the Bedroom accounts the lascivious education of a privileged young lady at the dawn of womanhood. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

The Marquis de Sade

Author: marquis de Sade
Publisher: Grove/Atlantic
ISBN: 9780394171234
Category : Erotic literature, French
Languages : en
Pages : 752

Book Description
This volume contains Philosophy in the Bedroom, a major novel that presents the clearest summation of his political philosophy; Eugenie 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.

The Bedroom Philosophers

Author: Marquis de Sade
Publisher: Disruptive Publishing
ISBN: 1626570086
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 189

Book Description
The Marquis de Sade's first book is an account of Eugenie's education by two libertines. The girl is finally so well-trained, she quite happily watches the rape of her own mother. Actually, the title is a comedy, and is generally considered de Sade's funniest work.

How To Read Sade

Author: John Phillips
Publisher: Granta Books
ISBN: 1783782501
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 132

Book Description
John Philips introduces the Marquis de Sade's highly original and thoroughly subversive depiction of human sexuality and the philosophical and political thinking that underpins it. He shows how, though Sade's work continues to shock, it can also be seen as the logical conclusion of eighteenth-century materialism. As the only writer of his time who dared to put the body at the centre of philosophy, Sade has a unique place in the history of modern thought. Extracts are taken form the whole range of Sade's writings, including The 120 Days of Sodom, Philosophy in the Boudoir, Juliette and his Last Will and Testament.

Great Philosophers Who Failed at Love

Author: Andrew Shaffer
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0062036610
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 210

Book Description
Few people have failed at love as spectacularly as the great philosophers. Although we admire their wisdom, history is littered with the romantic failures of the most sensible men and women of every age, including: Friedrich Nietzsche: "Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent." (Rejected by everyone he proposed to, even when he kept asking and asking.) Jean-Paul Sartre: "There are of course ugly women, but I prefer those who are pretty." (Adopted his mistress as his daughter.) Louis Althusser: "The trouble is there are bodies and, worse still, sexual organs." (Accidentally strangled his wife to death.) And dozens of other great thinkers whose words we revere—but whose romantic decisions we should avoid at all costs. Includes an excerpt from Andrew Shaffer's new book Literary Rogues.

Marquis de Sade

Author: Iwan Bloch
Publisher: The Minerva Group, Inc.
ISBN: 1589635671
Category : Authors, French
Languages : en
Pages : 285

Book Description
A detailed, analytical study of the life and times of this brilliant but bizarre personality (and the sexually erotic times he lived in), containing the essence of all his writings, based on research by Bloch in private archives of the French Government, and Bloch's discovery of de Sade's unpublished manuscript of 120 Days of Sodom in Marseilles. The work contains a precis of the 120 Days of Sodom, the first attempt systematically to catalog and describe abnormal sexual behavior -- 100 years before Krafft-Ebing. A serious academic study of France during de Sade's time, its sexual morality, de Sade's works, and the role of sadism in literature, etc., this biography precedes de Beauvoir's Faut-il Brule de Sade? and began the resuscitation and modern study of De Sade. The author Iwan Bloch, a German physician, won a distinguished name in the world of science in the fields, of medical history and anthropology.

The Boudoir Bible

Author: Betony Vernon
Publisher: Rizzoli Publications
ISBN: 0847840166
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 316

Book Description
A comprehensive and instructional guide to the new sexual landscape, covering "new territories" such as bondage, role playing, and sex toys that would make your parents blush. Since the publication of The Joy of Sex in 1972, the sexual landscape’s boundaries have been expanded to include a host of practices that are unthinkable in that classic tome. Although it also covers the basics, The Boudoir Bible fills those niches missing from other sex guides nicely, with full, elaborated chapters on rope bondage, restraints of sound and sight, erotic flagellation, and the stimulation of new erogenous zones, among innumerable other offerings. Well-researched, The Boudoir Bible is written from a joyful, sex-positive point of view. Going beyond the "lovemaking" of older guides, this witty and uninhibited tome expands the sexual act to encompass "verboten" topics, with chapters entitled "The Genital Gym," "Nipple Tease," "Male Ejaculation Control," and "The Anthems of Anal Sex." Illustrated by the renowned artist François Berthoud, whose provocative creations have graced both Prada campaigns and museum exhibitions, The Boudoir Bible provides a fresh view of sexuality in the twenty-first century.

Le Deuxième Sexe

Author: Simone de Beauvoir
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0679724516
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 791

Book Description
The classic manifesto of the liberated woman, this book explores every facet of a woman's life.

The Marquis de Sade: A Very Short Introduction

Author: John Phillips
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0192804693
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 161

Book Description
Discussing the 'real' Marquis de Sade from his mythical and demonic reputation, John Phillips examines Sade's life and work his libertine novels, his championing of atheism, and his uniqueness in bringing the body and sex back into philosophy.

The Misfortunes of Virtue and Other Early Tales

Author: Marquis de Sade
Publisher: Oxford Paperbacks
ISBN: 0192836951
Category : Erotic stories, French
Languages : en
Pages : 338

Book Description
Revered by Enlightenment and Victorian thinkers, de Sade was recognized as a founding father by the Surrealists, and holds a prominent place in the history of modernism and post-modernism. This selection of his early writings, some appearing in English translation for the first time, revealsthe full range of his sobering moods and considerable talents.