Donatien Alphonse Francois, the Marquis de Sade (1740-1814), has been at the center of numerous scandals in his lifetime and ever since. His blatant writings, which combine hard pornography and complex philosophy, generated the coinage of sadism to describe the act of deriving pleasure through infliction of pain and suffering. "Sadian Reflections" depicts the philosophical construction built by the Marquis, a construction where cruelty is an inalienable part of happiness.
- ISBN10 0838640672
- ISBN13 9780838640678
- Publish Date 3 August 2005
- Publish Status Unknown
- Out of Print 15 June 2021
- Publish Country US
- Publisher Associated University Presses
- Imprint Fairleigh Dickinson University Press,U.S.
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 208
- Language English