MARQUIS DE SADE'S VEILED SOCIAL CRITICISM: The Depravities of Sodom as the Perversities of France; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Chapter I: A Calculated Risk: Pursuing The Matter Deeper; Chapter II: Who is Responsible and Who is Penalized; Chapter III: Chronos Eating His Children: Auguries in Plain Sight Left Unseen; Chapter IV: What is the True Value of Faith and Hope?; Chapter V: Conclusion; Endnotes:; Bibliography; Name Index; Subject Index
Summary
This work aims to separate de Sade the individual from his image in order to better understand his philosophy regarding the?libertine? status quo on the Ancien Régime in France. By doing so, his prophetic magnum opus, The One Hundred Days of Sodom, is parted from the accretions of misapprehension which have surrounded it and shown as the author intended it to be: a philosophical mirror by which France would recognize its foibles and its errant ways
