英文摘要 |
This article aims to explore the relationship between politics and sex in Marquis de Sade's political philosophy. He tried ironically to reduce the complicated political questions into pure sexual relation. Unlike Rousseau or Montesquieu who have written serious work on political philosophy, Sade 's discussions are found in his literature works. 'La Philosophie dans le Boudoir' is the most famous one. For Marquis de Sade, 'sex' is one form of politics. From the starting point of 'sexual' liberation, 'anarchism' and 'despotism' are political forms he praised effortlessly. The special point of his political views are, first of all, under the premise of the legitimation of 'sex', he justified all crimes thus committed. Even the unpardonable 'murder' fits in the natural law, because Sade's natural view is destructive, and negative. After justifying all crimes and the necessity of 'crimes', there would not be any 'crimes' left in the world. Secondly, there is a tendency of 'analogy' in his works, he compared libertine (libertin) to the political dictator, they both reificate (chosifier) people (objects of lewd) and then dominate them as slaves. Sexual relationship is like politics, there are qualities of dominator/dominated in both of them. Therefore, there are two kinds of despotism, public despotism (despotisme public) and private despotism (despotisme prive). The latter could be seen as a form of 'sadism'. This article is going to analyze Marquis de Sade's 'sexually' based political philosophy from two angles, the 'sexualized' anarchism and the 'frantic' utopian. |