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    The divine Marquis' ethical project: Sade and the "turn to religion" in postmodernist philosophy

    226722_Russell 2015.pdf (2.103Mb)
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    Authors
    Russell, Melissa Michele
    Date
    2014
    Supervisor
    Margaret Macintyre
    Dr Christina Lee
    Type
    Thesis
    Award
    PhD
    
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    School
    School of Media, Culture and Creative Arts
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/357
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    • Curtin Theses
    Abstract

    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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