Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-198) and index.
Contents:
Introduction : on ghastly and horrible books -- Part 1: Reflections of the body. Eye : on seeing and looking -- Mouth : on narration and food -- Hand : on writing and masturbation -- Leg : on wandering -- Prick and phallocentrism -- Cunt and female sexuality -- Arse and male homosexuality -- Heart : on love in the Sadian world -- Part 2: Reflections of our time. On ethics, wrath, and death : Lacan reads Sade -- On postmodernism and dehumanization : the Sadian world of Jacques Derrida -- Closure : Sade, our neighbor.
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