SADE: FORGIVENESS AND TRUTH IN A DESACRALISED UNIVERSE
This paper offers a challenge to the construction of Sade as a liberating figure by western intellectuals Such readings invariably intellectualise and mitigate the sufferings of the victim in his writings But rather than deny the need to engage with Sade's worldview I shall contend that this is...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2001
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Literature and theology
Year: 2001, Volume: 15, Issue: 3, Pages: 262-275 |
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| Summary: | This paper offers a challenge to the construction of Sade as a liberating figure by western intellectuals Such readings invariably intellectualise and mitigate the sufferings of the victim in his writings But rather than deny the need to engage with Sade's worldview I shall contend that this is vital, especially if one wishes to advocate a post–Christian spirituality If one denies a transcendent moral order or God, are we inevitably committed to the kind of universe Sade describes? Subverting aspects of Sade's own thesis can provide the basis for a meaningful vision of humanity grounded in this world |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4623 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Literature and theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/litthe/15.3.262 |