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Medicine in the Boudoir: Sade and Moral Hygiene in Post-Thermidorean France
Situates Sade's work into the cultural and intellectual context during the Age of Enlightenment by focusing on Sade's engaged approach to scientific culture, epistemology and social reforms and analyzes his medical appropriation of these…
Historia de los cambios climaticos
Excellent overall view, rooted in anthropology and ethnology, regarding how climate change affects cultures and social morals throughout the world. While an wide chronological perspective is the norm, there are excellent individual pieces dealing…
The Ancient Maya: New Perspectives
Excellent survey of late-Maya civilization, focusing on the Post-Classic period from the 10th-16th centuries and into Spanish contact, running through the "long colonial period" up to the end of the 18th century. Relevant for the newer emphasis that…
The Age of Global Warming
Overall survey, focuses more on the West (including Latin America, which not all "Western surveys" do) and the theorteical reasons underlying contemporary attitudes toward climate change; but takes into account, throughout the book, earlier attitudes…
The Great Warming: The Rise and Fall of Civilizations
Demonstrates the effects of climate change from Central America to Europe during the 10th-15th centuries, as well as the later effects which this climate change had on multiple civilizations when these same places were colonized in the later 17th and…
Intersections. A Reading of Sade with Bataille, Blanchot, and Klossowksi
Argues that Sade undermines hierarchical distinctions which, according to Gallop, are the foundations of Western philosophy. In his works, Sade deconstructs sexual hierarchies and conventions, gender binarism, as well as the distinction between…
Tags: feminism, In-between, narratology, philosophy, pornography, sexuality, upheavals
Sade: Queer Theorist
Examines Sade's multifaceted depiction of sexual desire, gender and biological sex and links this representation to queer theories which help better understand Sade's denial of binary representations of sexuality. The polyphonic definitions of…
Tags: disciplines, In-between, pornography, queer, queer studies, sexuality, upheavals, violence
L’indisable et l’obscène : Flaubert, Sade et la loi. A propos de Bouvard et Pécuchet
Argues that Gustave Flaubert's unfinished satirical novel Bouvard et Pécuchet (1881) is more transgressive in its un-making of the concept of law and order than in the works of his literary model Sade. According to Pellegrini, both authors attack the…
Sade/Surreal. Der Marquis de Sade und die erotische Fantasie des Surrealismus in Text und Bild
Explores Sade's impact on the political surrealist art movement in Europe, especially before the 1930s. Sade was hailed for what the surrealists perceived to be his atheistic, materialist, nihilistic and individualistic anarchism that appealed to…
Sade: From Materialism to Pornography
Examines influences of materialist philosophers of the Enlightenment on Sade's thinking and writing and how Sade adapts these various philosophies to create his own transgressive approach to materialism. In so doing, Warman shows how violence,…
Tags: disciplines, In-between, materialism, pornography, upheavals
On the Shores of Politics [Au bords du politique]
Argues that political realism is a utopian belief and proposes that the true meaning of politics is based on the organization of dissent, or the righting of wrongs. Rancière offers "le politique" (the masculine form of a feminine noun - la politique)…
Tags: In-between, political philosophy, upheavals
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