Marquis de Sade
Author | : I. Bloch |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1931 |
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ISBN | : 9780686745846 |
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Author | : I. Bloch |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1931 |
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ISBN | : 9780686745846 |
Author | : Iwan Bloch |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 2013-10 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781258889814 |
Studies In The History Of The Culture And Morals Of The Eighteenth Century. This is a new release of the original 1931 edition.
Author | : Iwan Bloch |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 2008-06 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781436687102 |
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
Author | : Ivan Bloch |
Publisher | : Createspace Independent Pub |
Total Pages | : 234 |
Release | : 2013-02-23 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781482605778 |
Even those whose knowledge of De Sade is limited to knowing that the word 'sadism' is derived from his name, or perhaps have been introduced to some of the practices associated with that word through reading the EL James book 'Fifty Shades of Grey', may wonder who the heck was this French guy anyway? And still a controversial figure even 200 years after he died! Well, here is a brilliant introduction; a fascinating biographical and historical account of his life, his work and the times he lived in—written by the man who coined the word 'sadism'; his first biographer Dr Ivan Bloch.Now published for the first time for Kindle, 'Marquis de Sade: The Man And His Age', explores in detail the core themes and prevailing cultural climate of France in the eighteenth century. De Sade was an aristocrat, philosopher and politician, as well as a writer of 'extreme' pornography. He was born in 1740 and lived through the most tumultuous period in French history—the end of the 200-year-old Bourbon monarchy under Louis XVI, during the revolutionary years, through to the meteoric rise of Napoleon in the new republican era.As a point in time, 'The Enlightenment' or 'Age of Reason' the period roughly between 1600-1800, was a collision of the old world religious order, pitched up against a new world of Newtonian physics and other profound scientific discoveries which introduced new perspectives on nature and man's place within it, challenging the very idea of faith, religion and intolerance in society, as represented by the Catholic Church—which he despised.This shift towards a more secular society gave the avowed atheist De Sade, an opportunity to rewrite the rulebook to suit him self. His logic was that if there wasn't a God, there was no justification for setting any limitations on human actions, thus legitimising all forms of sexual experimentation. De Sade was in this sense an example of 'Enlightenment' philosophy taken to its absolute extreme, advocating total freedom and recognising pleasure alone as the goal of life. He rejected private property, morality, religion, laws and authority because he believed they were the opposite of what true freedom was all about; a devotion to the pursuit of pleasure—for its own sake.Still a controversial figure, his works have been banned at some point by many governments and leaders across the world—fearful of what they all perceived would be the toxic effect his writings would have on 'their' masses. Even eminent contemporary Rousseau warned that 'Justine', would damn any girl who read but a single page, while he was hailed by Apollinaire as “the freest spirit that has ever lived.”Dr Bloch reveals with gripping detail the debaucheries, prostitution, pornography, perversity, crime and punishment of a France then awash with a coruscating amorality—a monarchy so corrupt and self serving it almost single-handedly bankrupted the country; a clergy that was lining it's pockets and engaging in the very 'unholy' sexual practices it purported to be against; and how Sade disseminated and satirized these events in his books, plays and writings, including 'Justine', 'Juliette' and 'Philosophy In The Boudoir.'From eye witness accounts of public executions to the most outrageous of Bacchanalian orgies, it is an unflinchingly depictive account of his life and times and (be warned!) will undoubtedly be, in parts an uncomfortable read for many because of the shocking level of detail it contains. Dr Bloch explains the satires and references the 'real life' scenarios his writings were alluding to—those he was attacking. Through the quickly circulated pamphlets and books and the subsequent public notoriety he gained in the process, his mockery of the monarchy and the church made him into an unlikely hero of the radical left and other critics of the Ancien Régime.Claimed as a precursor to Freud, The Surrealists, Baudelaire, The Existentialists, Nietzsche and Stimer, even today his influence ever pervasive.
Author | : Iwan Bloch |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 1931 |
Genre | : Eighteenth century |
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Author | : Iwan Bloch |
Publisher | : The Minerva Group, Inc. |
Total Pages | : 285 |
Release | : 2002-03 |
Genre | : Authors, French |
ISBN | : 1589635671 |
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.
Author | : Marquis de Sade |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 640 |
Release | : 2013-02-18 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1625585985 |
The 120 Days of Sodom by Marquis de Sade relates the story of four wealthy men who enslave 24 mostly teenaged victims and sexually torture them while listening to stories told by old prostitutes. The book was written while Sade was imprisoned in the Bastille and the manuscript was lost during the storming of the Bastille. Sade wrote that he "wept tears of blood" over the manuscript's loss. Many consider this to be Sade crowing acheivement.
Author | : Neil Schaeffer |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 580 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780674003927 |
Against a magnificently embroidered backdrop of 18th-century France, Schaeffer shows us Sade's incredible life of sexual appetite, adherence to Enlightenment principles, imprisonment, scandal, and above all inexhaustible imagination.
Author | : Francine Du Plessix Gray |
Publisher | : Random House |
Total Pages | : 613 |
Release | : 2013-03-31 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1448163064 |
Donatien Alphonse Francois, Marquis de Sade (1740-1814), one of the most perplexing personalities of Western culture, has been called 'the freest spirit who ever lived' and 'a frenetic and abominable assemblage of all crimes and obscenities'. Yet scant attention has been given to the two women who were the catalysts of his fate: his loyal, tolerant wife, Renee-Pelagie, and his vindictive mother-in-law, Madame de Montreuil. This groundbreaking account vividly brings to life these two dynamic women and the complex bonds they evolved with the rakish Marquis, as they dedicated themselves to protecting, curbing and, ultimately, confining him. Francine du Plessix Gray draws on thousands of pages of correspondence between the magnetic, aristocratic Marquis de Sade and his plain, bourgeois wife, to explore in historical and psychological detail what it was like to live with this maverick adventurer and man of letters in the decades before the French Revolution. She brilliantly recreates the extravagant hedonism and corruption of late-18th-century France, the ensuing Terror, and the oppression of the Napoleonic regime under which de Sade spent his last years.
Author | : Iwan Bloch |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 1974 |
Genre | : Social Science |
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