英文摘要 |
The irreducible goal of Sade’s work does not concern erotism but the Idea, not desire but truth, not history but practice. This paper focuses on the passage from the empirical description to the transcendental Idea, from pornography to “pornology,” or from fiction to truth. The central problem is: what is the enterprise of thought that Sade attempts to build through his writings? In Sade, the “practical reason of evil” is characterized by the experience of limit and the dialectical transformation. The stake of his writings, however, do not pertain to debauchery, crimes, profanation and so forth; the most essential for Sade is the idea of evil—the idea from which all difficulties are derived, and through which the extraordinary movements of Sade’s philosophy emerge. Sade’s tales reveal the singular existence of the pervert, but each resonates with the “one and only sense” while representing its own differences, thus suggesting the univocity of evil in his work. |