Authenticity and Bad Faith in Beauvoirâs âMust We Burn Sade?â
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Simone de Beauvoir called the Marquis de Sade a great moralist and his ethics an ethics of authenticity, a statement that has puzzled many feminist thinkers. Yet she also claims that he was in bad faith. Analyzing the concepts of authenticity and bad faith as well as convergences between Sadeâs philosophy and existentialism, the author elucidates Beauvoirâs nonjudgmental reading of Sade.
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Simone de Beauvoir qualifie le marquis de Sade de grand moraliste et son éthique dâéthique de lâauthenticitéâ¯; une affirmation qui a dérouté de nombreuses penseuses féministes. Beauvoir soutient pourtant également quâil était de mauvaise foi. En analysant les concepts dâauthenticité et de mauvaise foi, ainsi que les convergences entre la philosophie sadienne et lâexistentialisme, lâarticle élucide la lecture non normative que Beauvoir propose de Sade.
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Authenticity and Bad Faith in Beauvoirâs âMust We Burn Sade?â
In: Simone de Beauvoir StudiesSearch for other papers by Erika Ruonakoski in
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Abstract
Simone de Beauvoir called the Marquis de Sade a great moralist and his ethics an ethics of authenticity, a statement that has puzzled many feminist thinkers. Yet she also claims that he was in bad faith. Analyzing the concepts of authenticity and bad faith as well as convergences between Sadeâs philosophy and existentialism, the author elucidates Beauvoirâs nonjudgmental reading of Sade.
Résumé
Simone de Beauvoir qualifie le marquis de Sade de grand moraliste et son éthique dâéthique de lâauthenticitéâ¯; une affirmation qui a dérouté de nombreuses penseuses féministes. Beauvoir soutient pourtant également quâil était de mauvaise foi. En analysant les concepts dâauthenticité et de mauvaise foi, ainsi que les convergences entre la philosophie sadienne et lâexistentialisme, lâarticle élucide la lecture non normative que Beauvoir propose de Sade.
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| Abstract Views | 80 | 80 | 80 |
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| PDF Views & Downloads | 23 | 23 | 23 |
