The aim of the article is to show that Les Crimes de l’amour, a collection of short stories published by Sade in 1800 in his own name, represents an important part of his philosophical reflection on emotion. Sade’s work focuses on a lucid reconstruction of the theory of emotion to the basis of sentimentalist philosophy; this reconstruction, however, aims at a refutation of sentimentalism itself. This process of textual and conceptual ‘perversion’ ends by the ‘implosion’ of sentimentalist ethics through his own expressive instruments (the edifying fiction) and his own theoretical assumptions (the pathetic and the doctrine of sympathy).

«LES CRIMES DE L’AMOUR» DEL MARCHESE DE SADE: L’IMPLOSIONE DEL SENTIMENTALISMO

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Abstract

The aim of the article is to show that Les Crimes de l’amour, a collection of short stories published by Sade in 1800 in his own name, represents an important part of his philosophical reflection on emotion. Sade’s work focuses on a lucid reconstruction of the theory of emotion to the basis of sentimentalist philosophy; this reconstruction, however, aims at a refutation of sentimentalism itself. This process of textual and conceptual ‘perversion’ ends by the ‘implosion’ of sentimentalist ethics through his own expressive instruments (the edifying fiction) and his own theoretical assumptions (the pathetic and the doctrine of sympathy).
2019
XLI
1
107
130
Sade – Emotion – Sentimentalism – Rousseau – Sympathy
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