April 2010
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The Revenge of the Libertines or, Sade’s...
by Beatrice Gross
“Eugenie, let me kiss your beautiful behind while I bugger mamma, and you…Madame, bring yours near, so that I can handle it…socratize it.” (Philosophy in the Bedroom, p. 358)
There is something of Plato’s maieutic in Sade’s pedagogical project, as the frenetic initiations staged in his sadistic utopias tend to reveal innate propensities, awaken,...